-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe and the US, empirical estimates indicated only a modest contribution of trade … emergence of China as an exporting powerhouse. While research in economics had long acknowledged that trade with lower … the unequal impacts of trade can manifest along different margins. Recent evidence from countries across Europe and the US …

To what extent can increasing inequality be explained by globalization? And if there is a connection, what if anything … can and should be done about it? This chapter begins with an overview of how conventional trade theory has fared in … predicting changes in inequality and how it has needed to be extended and expanded when, contrary to some received wisdom …

intermediates and intra-firm wage inequality. Our results show that intermediate input importers not only have a significant wage … for productivity and use trade costs as the instruments. We further investigate the mechanism of how importing … intermediates might contribute to both inter-firm and intra-firm wage inequality. Our evidence is consistent with three important …

Inequality and fairness have always been at the heart of any political concept aiming at the well-being of the people … inequality, the existence of inequality aversion has become a generally accepted fact in Economics. This dissertation contributes … to the ensuing debate on causes, consequences, and measurement of inequality. It consists of three essays providing …

that income inequality is perceived very differently depending on openness to trade. The relevance of perceptions has wider … research examining the issue has concentrated on international specialization and within-country income inequality as main … income distribution has widened and whether trade is responsible indeed. However, political trends may be more grounded in …

of ‘inclusive growth’ must overcome the challenges prompted by reduced inequalities between countries, growing inequality …