Using both a gravity model to consider the natural trading bloc hypothesis, and simulation using a CGE model to make welfare estimates, we examine the potential effect of a subset of the new RTA proposal in the APEC region. In broad terms the two approaches appear consistent in their ability to...

Using data, from the 1995 Australian Workplace Industrial Relations Survey, which match individual employees to the firms and workplaces at which they are employed, this paper examines the relative importance of both individual and workplace characteristics for wages. Results from the estimation...

This paper examines the process and extent of China's commercial integration into the global economy through its trade and investment links. China's emergence as an economic entity appears to have been a result of combination of 'push' factors in capital rich economies such as the NIEs and...