This paper argues that immigration policy formation in the US after 1950 can only be understood in the context of the increasing integration of world markets. Increasing trade openness has exposed firms that rely on immigrant labor to foreign competition and increased the likelihood that these...

The growth of Chinese exports in market share over the past two decades is a singular event in the history of world trade. Using data from 1995-2010, we document this growth in a variety of ways. We show that the expanded trade is pervasive. Virtually every country in the world has seen China...

This paper calculates Theil’s entropy index to measure the extent of productivity differences across 92 countries for the period from 1970 to 2003. While there is evidence of increasing differences in productivity across these countries, we observe different patterns when we group the...

This paper presents a break-down of the export and import performance of selected East Asian countries into changes in price and volume. The results show that in aggregate, the decline in export revenue experienced by these countries in 1998 was largely due to a 9.1 percent fall in prices, and...

This article examines the consequences of the international community’s and, more specifically, the United States’ efforts to help Jordan develop through the use of Preferential Trade Arrangements (PTAs). Specifically, it looks at how an effort to encourage garment and apparel manufacturing...

This paper aims to highlight the impact of the current economic and financial crisis on world trade business in developed and developing countries, specifically for the global foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows; growth rates of gross domestic product (GDP), trade and employment growth; and...

The empirical analysis of the micro links between trade and knowledge diffusion allows us to distinguish among the key predictions of the theoretical literature on endogenous growth. This literature postulates that total factor productivity (TFP) is higher when trade gives access to a wider or...

This work has two main objectives: a) to survey a sample of recent economic studies on the present conditions of Brazilian foreign trade relations, including works in progress, so as to support the activities of the Brazilian Chamber of Foreign Trade (Camex); and b) to select a sub-sample of...

We demonstrate that there are links between international trade and environmental control, heretofore unappreciated, which might substantially alter the efficacy of various governmental policies to control pollution. One concern about national environmental policies is that, whereas the benefits...

China is transitioning toward more inward-focussed growth, causing adverse changes in the product and financial terms of trade in the advanced economies. At the same time, international financial markets tussle between tightening forces associated with the US recovery on the one hand and...