International trade in services has grown, year after year, in importance in the world economy. The trade with services … undergoes a more accelerated ascension than the one with goods, but it still holds less than 20% of the global trade partly due … commercial presences on the foreign markets. The liberalization of the international trade with services is likely to generate …

of natural selection are made weaker because trade allows people to specialize in those activities where they are strong …, and to offset their weaknesses by purchasing adequate goods on the market. Absent trade, people must allocate their time … alleles at all locations. Under trade, there exist long-run equilibria where less fit individuals are able to achieve the same …

employment growth and of size and job reallocation. Finally, we establish that strong foreign trade links force firms to shed … labour more aggressively and to engage in more restructuring when trade is directed to and originating from Western economies …. This disciplining function is absent when the trade flows are confined to CIS countries. …

This paper investigates short and long-run effects of trade liberalization on employment and wages. Employment and wage …

, with a particular interest in examining the role of international trade in impacting upon productivity levels … productivity across the firms/sectors, and of the role of trade liberalization. Our results suggest that changes in firm level …

country's trade openness, ie importing R&D-intensive (IT) goods from abroad. This contrasts to what occurs for less advanced …

search for the determinants of trade diversification process. Using a panel data-set for 60 countries and twenty years (1985 …