This article reviews the empirical evidence on firm heterogeneity in international trade. A first
wave of empirical findings from microdata on plants and firms proposed challenges for …

To show how fast Internet affects employment in Africa, we exploit the gradual arrival of
submarine Internet cables on the coast and maps of the terrestrial cable network. Robust …

This article reviews key recent literature on the effects of trade liberalization on poverty in
developing countries and asks whether our knowledge has changed significantly over a …

A quantitative model brings together theories linking international trade to quality,
technology, and demand for skills. Standard effects of trade on importers and exporters are …

We develop a specific-factors model of regional economies that includes two types of
workers, skilled and unskilled. The model delivers a simple equation relating trade-induced …

We measure the effects of trade liberalization over the period of 1993–2002 on regional
poverty levels in 259 Indonesian districts, and investigate the labor market mechanisms …

This paper empirically investigates whether the nature of firm-level employment adjustment
is affected by the flexibility of the labour market. Specifically, we take advantage of …

This paper aims at understanding the vigorous connection between globalization, income
inequality and human development in Indonesian economy. This study employs Morlet's …

After China's recent great success in eliminating absolute poverty, addressing relative
income inequality becomes a more important issue. This survey finds that income inequality …

This paper tests for the production complementarity between firms' access to high-quality
intermediate inputs and their skill composition and their joint impact on output quality. Using …