globalization in France has been a huge growth in vertical specialization -- the completion of the different production stages of a … that in France vertical specialization -- defined as the share of imported inputs in production -- rose from 9% in 1977 to …

This paper explores the emergence of a world economy since 1950 and its implications for the world's labor force. There …, the world economy is still in its adolescence. Rapid integration has occurred among the industrial economies, but … the industrial economies, but not in world income inequality as the income gap between the industrial and developing …

We examine the sales of French manufacturing firms in 113 destinations, including France itself. Several regularities … participation; (3) average sales in France rise very systematically with selling to less popular markets and to more markets. We …

bit more than half the world's countries experience declining CHB and rising TFP. The effects are big for the outliers. A …