The labour markets in the developed countries have experienced two fundamental changes in recent years. Firstly, high-skilled workers have gained at the expense of low-skilled workers, which manifests itself in a rising skill premium and/or a rising disparity in the unemployment rates of these...

Factor price equality across countries is an important implication of the Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson model of international trade. Although an influential theoretical result, the model has received surprisingly little empirical support. Burgman and Geppert (1993) argue that this might be due to...

Past attempts to generalise the Stolper-Samuelson Theorem have used a matrix of real income terms which is sufficient but not necessary to define a change in utility. In contrast, one can define a second matrix of terms which are necessary and sufficient for a change in indirect utility. Using...