Revolutionary transformations of industry and trade occurred from 1985 to the late-1990s - the regionalisation of …

This paper presents empirical evidence that the growth of export manufacturing in Mexico during a period of major trade …

(2003)) assume homogeneous workers and full employment, and thus predict that all workers win from trade liberalization, a …How do labor markets adjust to trade liberalization? Leading models of intraindustry trade (Krugman (1981), Melitz … from trade. …

We propose a theory that rising globalization and rising wage inequality are related because trade liberalization … acumen, and we estimate this correlation to be large using firm-level data from Chile in 1995. A fall in trade costs leads to … both greater trade volumes and an increase in the relative demand for skill, as the lowest-cost/most-skilled firms expand …

This paper studies the link between volatility, labor market flexibility, and international trade. International … with higher volatility. Empirical evidence for a large sample of countries strongly supports this theory: the exports of …

impact of low-wage competition on U.S. manufacturing employment and output. Markets characterized by relatively shorter … quality ladders are associated with larger employment and output declines resulting from low-wage competition. …

This paper studies empirically the links between international trade and labor income risk faced by workers in the … then combine our estimates of persistent labor income risk with measures of exposure to international trade to analyze the … relationship between trade and labor income risk. Importantly, by contrasting estimates from various sub-samples of workers, such …

productivity and a large expansion of employment, as it grew from 8 to 14 percent of the workforce. Changes in trade policy … drastic move of employment away from agriculture toward services and manufacturing, we also document the movement of workers …, expansion of employment in foreign owned firms, and the declining role of state owned enterprises robustly contributed toward …