impact of trade liberalization on employment, welfare, and the distribution of income. In particular, we show that a movement … from autarky to free trade with a symmetric partner country lowers union wage claims and therefore stimulates employment … firm owners remains unaffected, while the distribution of wage income becomes more equal when a country opens up to trade …

We provide a unified framework for quantifying the cross-country and cross-sector interactions among trade, innovation …, and knowledge diffusion. We study the effect of trade liberalization in an endogenous growth model in which comparative … shows that a reduction in trade costs induces a re-allocation of R&D and comparative ad- vantage across sectors …

We provide a unified framework for quantifying the cross country and cross-sector interactions among trade, innovation …, and knowledge diffusion. We study the effect of trade liberalization in a multi-country, multi-sector endogenous growth … trade costs induces a re-allocation of comparative advantage in production and innovation across sectors, which translates …

impact of trade liberalization on employment, welfare, and the distribution of income. In particular, we show that a movement … from autarky to free trade with a symmetric partner country lowers union wage claims and therefore stimulates employment … firm owners remains unaffected, while the distribution of wage income becomes more equal when a country opens up to trade …

We provide a unified framework for quantifying the cross country and cross-sector interactions among trade, innovation …, and knowledge diffusion. We study the effect of trade liberalization in a multi-country, multi-sector endogenous growth … trade costs induces a re-allocation of comparative advantage in production and innovation across sectors, which translates …

This paper addresses the role of mobility costs in shaping the effects of trade integration on wage inequality and … the welfare-enhancing effects of trade integration. In addition we show that, even when the public programme entails some … welfare losses, it can make trade integration Pareto superior with respect to autarky …