Australia's principal container ports, located in its state capitals, are owned and operated by state authorities that largely return profits from port operations to state governments. Since they govern the volumes of trade in most merchandise, they command immense influence over the openness...

This paper examines the impact of export orientation, import competition, foreign ownership and the rate of capital accumulation on the relative demand for skilled and unskilled labor in pre-crisis Indonesia.

This paper briefly summarizes the state and the debate and describes the results of a recent study of the links between trade, technical change and labour market behavior.

This paper adapts a more general yet standard global model to investigate international effects of wage regulation and of the Asian emergence. The Davis result that European unemployment raises the wage in the US is supported, though the generalisations in our model greatly weaken it. By...

This paper employs a global general equilibrium framework and sensitivity analysis to examine why it is that shocks in one country apprear to transmit to comparatively small changes in real factor rewards in its trading partners.