migration and trade and their effects on unemployment (chapter 5), and the dynamics of democracy and income chapter 6). …-Maximilians-Universität München. It includes six self-contained chapters which deal with the following topics in empirical international trade and …, trade, and informal employment as illustrated by the maquiladora industry in Mexico (chapter 4), the interaction between …

on gravity modeling and estimation for international trade and migration and on domestic firm-level labor market effects … migration frictions. Chapter 3 asks how the welfare quantification of trade liberalization changes if one allows workers to be … trade with endogenous international migration choices of workers. We use the model for an ex ante comparative static welfare …

econometric methodology. Chapter 1 applies an econometric gravity analysis to bilateral trade flows to assess how successful the … European Schengen Agreement has been in boosting international trade. It proposes a new indicator variable to account for the … plurilateral agreement's spatial dimension. Chapter 2 provides a gravity analysis of international migration flows to investigate …

one or more aspects of international trade and factor movements, including trade in goods, trade in value added …, international movement of labor and capital, and trade in risk. All chapters aim to contribute to our understanding of the economic … of the pattern of trade, factor flows, and production, as well as the role of barriers to the international exchange of …

. Chapter 2 quantifies non-pecuniary migration costs that are incurred due to selective migration along cultural traits. Chapter … Determinanten selektiver Migration beschäftigen sowie die Wichtigkeit selektiver Migration für die Zusammensetzung der arbeitenden …

at contributing to the understanding of non-standard determinants of trade and migration: historical and cultural … costs of natural disasters: trade openness and income per capita (Chapter 4), and natural disasters, international … Arbeit liefert einen Betrag zum Verständnis atypischer Determinanten von Handel und Migration: historische und kulturelle …

-contained chapters. All chapters discuss different implications of the growing importance of trade in intermediate inputs. The first … chapter compares the impact of international trade in intermediate inputs (offshoring) on wage inequality in two distinct but … and estimates the importance of international trade in intermediate inputs and internationally mobile capital for the …