Foreign trade affects women's wages and jobs, their household work, and their leisure. This paper develops a model which covers not only all the sectors of the market economy, but also social reproduction and leisure activities, for women and men separately. The model, which in other respects is...

Creation of the North American Free Trade Area (NAFTA) has focused attention on trade in intermediate goods and on offshore sourcing in the context of preferential trade liberalization. Although intermediate goods trade as a general phenomenon has been thoroughly examined in the literature, its...

The recent literature on the duration of trade has predominantly analyzed the determinants of trade flow durations using Cox proportional hazards models. The purpose of this paper is to show why it is inappropriate to analyze the duration of trade with continuous-time models such as the Cox...