We investigate the relationship between exporting, importing, and wage premia using a richmatched employer-employee data set. We improve on the previous literature (i) by using anew methodology to quantify the contribution of an extensive set of worker- and firm-levelobservable and unobservable...

We document the recent phenomenon of uphill flows of capital from nonindustrial toindustrial countries and analyze whether this pattern of capital flows has hurt growth innonindustrial economies that export capital. Surprisingly, we find that there is a positivecorrelation between current...

This paper discusses the occurrence of Skill-Enhancing Technology Import (SETI), namelythe relationship between imports of embodied technology and widening skill-basedemployment differentials in a sample of low and middle income countries (LMICs)...

In Zeiten zunehmender Komplexität besteht die Neigung, nach Moral zu rufen. Man hofft auf Orientierung in den Wirren der Unübersichtlichkeit. In solchen Zeiten wachsen der Ethik zwei Aufgaben zu. Eine erste Aufgabe besteht darin, nicht nur die (Gründe der) Nachfrage zu reflektieren, sondern...