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 …

Production sharing and vertical specialization account for a significant share of trade between developed and … developing countries. The Mexican maquiladora industry provides an ideal example of production sharing in a small open economy … tries to determine to what extent production sharing, as in the Mexican maquiladora, can serve as a transmission mechanism …