The phased elimination of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement has been one of the most compelling trade policy reforms of the … global south. The textile and clothing industry is the largest foreign exchange earner and the largest employment provider in … under which such a global policy could well raise labourers' income and generate more employment. …

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. …

In a heterogeneous-firm model with oligopsonistic local labor markets, this paper shows that opening up to trade can … distortion and examine their evolution following China's trade policy reform in 2001. I find that labor market distortion is … pervasive and the trade policy reform has led to a net reduction of the distortion in China's manufacturing sector, with a …

Neoclassical trade theory suggests that factor price convergence should follow increased commercial integration. Rising … commercial integration and foreign direct investment followed the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement between the United … 2011. We apply a synthetic panel approach to employment survey data and a more descriptive approach to Census data from …

characteristics of workers entering/ exiting into/from employment that may blur the "true" underlying wage growth, are not typically … 2006-2018 period after netting out the consequences of employment dynamics. Our results show that the "true" underlying …

offshoring mainly through changes in relative wages rather than changes in relative employment. This runs counter to the …