1. Introduction: World Trade Organization, Trade and Opportunities -- 2. Trade Policy and Price-based Barriers -- 3. Non-Tariff Barriers and Trade Flows -- 4. Trade, Environment and Climate Change -- 5. RTAs and Trade Integration -- 6. Emerging Issues under WTO -- 7. Conclusion.

Disruptions of labor market trajectories have lasting effects on later economic success. One type of disruption that is understudied is displacement due to forced labor conscription, despite it still being a frequent event nowadays. I study the consequences of exposure to forced labor...

This paper challenges what is the standard account of UK unemployment, namely that the major swings in unemployment over the past 25 years are due predominantly to movements in the underlying empirical "natural rate of unemploymentʺ (NRU). Our analysis suggests that the British NRU has remained...