Domestic institutions can have profound effects on international trade. This chapter reviews
the theoretical and empirical underpinnings of this insight. Particular attention is paid to …

There is much disagreement about both the facts and the explanations of income inequality.
Even if we confine attention to OECD countries, we find people arguing that there has been …

Q You use the term" Pangiossian" in your current book to describe some trade economists
who believe there is little impact on wages in America from international trade and …

The last few decades have seen a spectacular integration of the global economy through
trade. The rising integration of world markets has brought with it a disintegration of the …

In this paper, we survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wage,
employment, and displacement. We start with an overview of the measurement of offshoring …

IMMIGRATION AND TRADE-particularly with less developed countries (LDCs)-have
become more significant to the US economy since the 1960s than they were earlier in the …

We study a two-country, two-sector model of international trade in which one sector
produces homogeneous products and the other produces differentiated products. Both …

A half century of empirical work attempting to predict the factor content of trade in goods has
failed to bring theory and data into congruence. Our study shows how the Heckscher-Ohlin …

This paper studies the link between volatility, labor market flexibility, and international trade.
International differences in labor market regulations affect how firms can adjust to …

We argue that trade economists should begin to seriously consider environments in which
unemployment is carefully modeled. We introduce such a model, derive several results, and …