This paper extends the assessment of the impact of globalization on the bargaining power of employees by taking worker heterogeneity into account. In contrast with previous studies, two separate unions - representing low-skilled and high-skilled workers respectively - are considered. Using...

We analyse the immigration flows to Western Europe in the sixties. We develop a theoretical model tailored to account for some of the key features of this period, i.e., trade in manufacturing that essentially involved advanced countries, the growing administration of labour markets in Western...

The procedure proposed by Feenstra and Hanson (1997) to correct the standard errors in a two-stage regression with generated dependent variables does not guarantee positive variances. We propose a modified correction procedure such that standard errors can always be computed.