Using individual-level panel data from European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (2007-2010) we explore to what extend wage differentials across European countries are explained by differences in education, actual experience and health. The human capital literature suggests an...

The process of globalization has brought a major change in the international economy, and the scope of feasible trade between countries has broadened. Global value chains combine participation by geographically disperse suppliers in the production of modern manufactures characterized by an...

CGEMs are one of the most potentially powerful tools for simulating policies. However, a major restriction they face is them needing a huge number of parameters that are not always available, and even at times impossible to obtain. When CGEMs are applied to trade, Armington elasticities of...

This paper adds to the empirical literature on health as an important determinant of employment at older ages by exploring the role in the health-employment nexus of the wage rates of 50 to 64-year-old workers. To do so, we use individual-level panel data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and...

This journal contains a collection of articles on integration and trade in Latin American and the Caribbean. The topics addressed are as follows: international fragmentation of production and its effects on the labor market, regional production sharing networks in Latin America and East Asia,...

Esta edición de la Revista Integración & Comercio está dedicada a examinar los factores determinantes y las implicancias de la fragmentación internacional de la producción, desde el punto de vista de América Latina y el Caribe. Gracias a una serie de contribuciones de expertos en este...

Entrepreneurial (i.e. business ownership) experience may enable some entrepreneurs to temper their comparative optimism in subsequent ventures. The nature of entrepreneurial experience can shape how entrepreneurs adapt. Using data from a representative survey of 576 entrepreneurs in Great...

We use data from the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe to estimate for thirteen European countries the associations of early life circumstances—measured by childhood health and socioeconomic status (SES)—with educational attainment, and later life health and employment (at...

Spain, like the whole European Union (EU), is suffering a dramatic ageing process, while older workers (55-64 years) have high inactivity rates. In this sense, the promotion of active ageing will be necessary to guarantee the financial sustainability of pension systems as well as general...