since the early 1990s. In areas such as trade, investment, labor markets, technology, and policy coordination, regional …

. The political debate on the labor market impacts of international trade typically differentiates workers by their … educational attainment or skills. Gender is a further dimension in which the impacts of trade liberalization can differ. In a … globalizing world it is important to understand whether and how trade policy can contribute toward enhancing gender convergence in …

Recent trade theory in the Krugman (1980) tradition predicts that countries with larger market size enjoy higher levels … spending on inputs is affected by trade costs. However, in cross-country data, there is no such positive correlation between … is implicitly assumed in the usual formulation of aggregate CES production functions. Whether trade liberalization …

Since the expansion of world trade in the 1980s, measures of inequality have risen not only in developed countries, but … also throughout the developing world. This stylized fact is contrary to the predictions of classical trade theory that in … empirically tests the effects of trade on wage inequality in a differentiated panel framework where countries are classified …