Since changes in trade openness are typically confounded with other factors, it has been difficult to identify the … labor market consequences of increased international trade. The advent of the United States Interstate Highway System … provides a unique policy experiment, which I use to identify the effect of reducing trade barriers on the relative demand for …

This paper studies the implications for wage inequality of two distinct forms of globalisation, namely trade and …-ante homogeneous workers, heterogeneous firms and search and matching frictions into a multi-region model of trade and FDI with … interplay between trade, FDI and labour market institutions. …

on the volume of intermediate goods trade and the number of varieties produced are mutually reinforcing, resulting in a …

on the volume of intermediate goods trade and the number of varieties produced are mutually reinforcing, resulting in a …

This paper analyzes the impact of trade integration on wage inequality when there is heterogeneity across both workers … premium. Under trade, fixed export costs cause the selection of high productivity, high skill firms into exporting and an … caused by trade liberalization results from technology upgrading by new exporters. …

exposure to both technology and international trade. The paper adds to previous literature by focusing on both the determinants … of demand for Non-Routine skills and their effects on industry productivity and wages. The key finding is that import … competition from low-wage countries has been a strong driver of demand for Non-Routine skills during the 2000s. Both technology …

played by trade and FDI in determining employment. The empirical results obtained lend support to globalization having a …

competition due to the dismantling of import quotas as China entered the World Trade Organization to show, first, that rising …-wage occupations due to trade compared to moving from mid- to low-wage occupations. Employing task content information of detailed …

a result of international trade and the internationalisation of production by multinational companies, with a particular … investing firms. Existing studies suggest that the overall impact of trade and the internationalisation of production on …