Some individuals advocate incorporating labor standards into trade agreements. Others are vehemently opposed to the idea. Both sides to the controversy give compelling arguments to support their positions. This paper examines the controversy and applies ethical theory to determine whether...

This article offers a new empirical explanation to the smooth adjustment of employment to openness at the industry level, observed in recent years in developing countries and some of the developed countries. In fact, we challenge the view through which trade is related to employment via a sole...

The close connection between US and China in scientific research and education in the 2000s produced a large group of China-born researchers who work in the US ("diaspora") and a larger group of China-born researchers who gained US-research experience and returned to do their research in China...

This paper aims to explain that distance may not always be harmful for international trade, unlike the explanations provided by the gravity model. In case of service trade distance may be helpful instead, because of the existence of non-overlapping time zones between two trading countries. So,...

The U.K. skill premium fell from the 1950s to the late 1970s and then rose very sharply. This paper examines the contributions to these relative wage movements of international trade and technical change. We first measure trade as changes in product prices and technical change as TFP growth....

Using data from the National Urban Employment Survey (ENEU) and the Annual Industrial Survey (EIA), this paper analyzes changes in the Mexican manufacturing labor market, and tries to relate them to the expenditure in research and development (R&D) and to trade liberalization. The analysis shows...

This paper examines whether the sector bias of skill-biased technical change (SBTC) explains changing skill premia within countries in recent decades. First, using a two-factor, two-sector, two-country model we demonstrate that in many cases it is the sector bias of SBTC that determines SBTC’s...

The U.K. skill premium fell from the 1950s to the late 1970s and then rose very sharply. This paper examines the contributions to these relative wage movements of international trade and technical change. We first measure trade as changes in product prices and technical change as TFP growth....

This paper attempts to review the Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) phenomenon through selected aspects of it - past and present trends, structural issues, and development context. While the OFW system appears to be beneficial to the county, it is overrated. It is unclear what policies were really...

Recent estimates of the U.S. economic gains that would result from the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) are very small — only 0.13 percent of GDP by 2025. Taking into account the un-equalizing effect of trade on wages, this paper finds the median wage earner will probably lose as a...