This paper makes two contributions to the literature on the impact of trade on income. First, we use heterogeneous panel cointegration techniques that are robust to omitted variables and endogenous regressors to estimate the effect of trade on income for 81 developed and developing countries,...

Seit Mitte der 70er Jahre steigen die Exporte Chiles stetig. Mit zunehmender Exportexpansion ist auch der Industriegüteranteil am chilenischen Gesamtexport gewachsen. Trotz steigender vertikaler Exportdiversifizierung spielen Exporte aus technologischen Zukunftsbranchen eine marginale Rolle....

Although a large body of research has examined the effects of unions on the wage distribution, surprisingly little attention has been devoted to the effects of unions on the distribution of income. This paper examines the long-run relationship between unionization and income inequality for a...