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.

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...

Economic growth and trade liberalization since the 1970s have led to rapid growth in exports from many developing countries. The link between this expansion and the tendancy for wage dispersion in the older industrial countries is explored in this paper using global general equilibrium analysis.

As debt work-outs facilitate recovery from Asia'a recession, GDP there can be expected to rise and manufactured exports to expand. Asian imports and investment will remain low, however, as crisis-enhanced foreign debt is serviced and domestic savings continue to be sent abroad. Superficially,...

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.

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.

As debt work-outs facilitate recovery from Asia'a recession, GDP there can be expected to rise and manufactured exports to expand. Asian imports and investment will remain low, however, as crisis-enhanced foreign debt is serviced and domestic savings continue to be sent abroad. Superficially,...