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

, trade, and informal employment as illustrated by the maquiladora industry in Mexico (chapter 4), the interaction between …-Maximilians-Universität München. It includes six self-contained chapters which deal with the following topics in empirical international trade and … countries to additionally include informal employment (chapter 3) as well as the relation between foreign direct investment …

In this paper we demonstrate that intra-industry trade (or FDI)between identical countries could produce theobserved … deterioration in the relative wages of unskilled workers.This involves a model of North-Northintegration through either increased … trade flows or increased MNE-based production. Our motivation in this regardis arguments to the effect that trade cannot be …

We study the effect of services trade restrictiveness on manufacturing productivity for a broad cross-section of … countries at different stages of economic development. Decreasing services trade restrictiveness has a positive indirect impact … institutions in shaping this effect: countries with high institutional capacity benefit the most from services trade policy reforms …

This paper focuses on how gender segmentation in labor markets shapes the local effects of international trade. We … first develop a theoretical framework that embeds trade and gender-segmented labor markets to show that foreign demand … shocks may either increase or decrease the female-to-male employment ratio. The key theoretical result shows formally that …

GVC participation has a small effect on the distribution of wages and, when it has, it can reduce wage inequality when it …

International outsourcing of services has come to occupy an increasingly important part of international trade … trade in these services would be decided in line with country specific comparative advantage equations. Since services are …

This paper examines the relationship between the shadow economy and trade openness in Uganda, using autoregressive … distributed lag bounds testing approach. We find that the shadow economy and trade openness have a long- and short … exposure to foreign trade significantly reduces the size of the shadow economy. This could imply that as countries become more …

, we estimate the causal effects of a firm's bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We … find a positive, yet heterogeneous, effect of trade on immigrant employment but no effect on immigrant wages …We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate …