This paper studies the implications for wage inequality of two distinct forms of globalisation, namely trade and …-ante homogeneous workers, heterogeneous firms and search and matching frictions into a multi-region model of trade and FDI with … interplay between trade, FDI and labour market institutions. …

exporting and growth performance in Kenya using time series data. Despite trade liberalization and export promotion policies …

The contribution of this paper is to derive an optimal redistribution scheme for trade gains in the case of a … government's objective function that explicitly accounts for the equity-efficiency trade-off. The government pays unemployment …

rate uncertainty acts like a barrier to trade and modifies a firm's optimal choice in terms of production and pricing. The …

Trade liberalization is no Pareto-improvement - there are winners (high-skilled) and losers (low-skilled). To … wage tax, a payroll tax, or a profit tax. Using a Melitz-type model of international trade with unionized labor markets and … heterogeneous workers we show that: (i) there is a threshold level of UB where all trade gains are destroyed, (ii) this threshold …

The contribution of this paper is to derive an optimal redistribution scheme for trade gains in the case of a … government's objective function that explicitly accounts for the equity-efficiency trade-off. The government pays unemployment …

This paper analyzes how trade liberalization influences the unemployment rate of workers with different abilities. We … refine the Melitz (2003) framework to account for trade unions and heterogeneous workers, who differ with respect to their … abilities. Our main findings are: (i) highability workers profit from trade liberalization in terms of higher wages and higher …

rate uncertainty acts like a barrier to trade and modifies a firm's optimal choice in terms of production and pricing. The …

Trade liberalization is no Pareto-improvement - there are winners (high-skilled) and losers (low-skilled). To … wage tax, a payroll tax, or a profit tax. Using a Melitz-type model of international trade with unionized labour markets …-defined threshold, the trade gains will be completely destroyed. (iii) UB financed by a profit tax reduce the unemployment rate of the …