We propose a short-run theory of the extensive margins of trade, comprising the standard international extensive margin and a novel domestic extensive margin. The domestic extensive margin allows identification of globalization and specific policy effects not properly identified in previous...

We examine whether similarities in legal, sociological, and cultural characteristics between countries (country-pair homophily) affect foreign director appointments. Our results from estimating a gravity model, which includes economic and geographic country characteristics, indicate that...

This paper examines how experience from working in a foreign owned firm affects worker mobility. International experience can provide a worker with knowledge about foreign operations, thereby making them more attractive to other employers who are also engaged in international businesses. We...

We examine how similarity in institutional, legal, and social characteristics between a firm's and its directors’ home countries, that is, country-pair homophily, affects foreign director appointments. We estimate a gravity model that includes economic and geographic proximity and find that...

This paper uses cross-country data to examine the long-term effect of trade openness on the gender gaps in wages, education, political empowerment and health. Key findings are: trade openness since 1970 reduced the gender gaps in wages and educational attainment as of 2011 but did not influence...

This paper is concerned about addressing a question that has become critical in international trade, during the past three decades: "What factors explain the worldwide increase in skill premiums following international trade integration and increasingly globalized economies"? I propose a new...

We estimate the short- and long-run local labor market impacts of the large increase in U.S. imports and exports that occurred over the 1970s. We exploit the sequential opening of overseas shipping container ports over the period, which generated discontinuous changes in U.S. trade ows. We find...

Technological advance and improvements in communication technologies have facilitated the offshoring of jobs worldwide, where a typical scene following the supply chain involves developing countries importing finished products from developed countries that contain developing country labor...

The present paper examines the impact of export diversification (both product and destination wise) and ICT on aggregate Employment for a sample of 45 OECD and G20 countries for the period 1990-2019 after controlling for the effects of value-added, wage, physical capital formation, FDI, R&D...