-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 … migration and trade and their effects on unemployment (chapter 5), and the dynamics of democracy and income chapter 6). …

This dissertation was prepared as a collection of 4 research articles in the field of international trade with a focus … 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 …