We unify two approaches towards identifying native welfare effects of immigration, one emphasizing the immigration surplus (Borjas, 1995,1999), the other identifying a welfare loss due to terms-of-trade effects (Davis & Weinstein, 2002). We decompose the native welfare effect of immigration into...

I develop a generalized factor price frontier which incorporates endogenous adjustment of international fragmentation in multistage production, allowing for a continuum of stages. This allows us to address fragmentation, not only as an exogenous event, but also as an integral part of endogenous...

This paper takes a welfare-view on eastern enlargement of the EU, focusing on incumbent countries. Enlargement is decomposed into three elements: Single-market integration on commodity markets, budgetary costs from EU-expenditure policies, and single-market-induced migration from new to present...

Economic globalization causes an increasing international fragmentation (disintegration) of value-added-chains, whereby firms outsource components of production to foreign markets. There is a high level of concern about unwelcome distributional effects. This paper provides a theoretical...

The paper uses a specific-factors framework to address efficiency and distributional implications of international fragmentation which is driven by a foreign location advantage due to a low wage rate. Focusing on the cost-savings linkage between fragmentation and labor demand in the remaining...

Die Osterweiterung der EU verursacht für die bestehenden Mitgliedsländer Kosten. Sowohl die Gemeinsame Agrarpolitik, als auch die Regional- und Strukturpolitik der EU werden zu einem Nettotransfer von den alten zu den neuen Mitgliedsländern führen. Zugleich aber wird es zu...

Eastern enlargement of the EU promises gains, but also imposes fiscal costs on incumbent countries. A sensitive issue concerns immigration, jobs and wages. We address these issues in a general equilibrium framework, both analytically and through numerical simulations. Analytical results identify...

Diese Arbeit will einen Beitrag zur Klärung des Befriffes Globalisierung leisten. Im Rahmen eines einfachen Modells werden zwei relevante Globalisierungsszenarien analysiert, wobei besonderes Augenmerk auf eine klare Trennung zwischen den Effizienz- und den Verteilungswirkungen gelegt wird. Wir...