Domestic institutions as a source of comparative advantage

N Nunn, D Trefler - Handbook of international economics, 2014 - Elsevier
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 …

Explaining rising inequality: Skill‐biased technical change and north–south trade

N Chusseau, M Dumont, J Hellier - Journal of Economic …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
We review the 'skill‐biased technological change (SBTC) versus North–South trade
(NST)'debate in order to explain widening wage inequality between skilled and unskilled …

Labour market rigidities, trade and unemployment

E Helpman, O Itskhoki - The Review of Economic Studies, 2010 - academic.oup.com
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 …

Firm heterogeneity and the labor market effects of trade liberalization

H Egger, U Kreickemeier - International Economic Review, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
This article develops a model that incorporates workers' fair wage preferences into a general
equilibrium framework with heterogeneous firms. In a setting where the wage considered to …

Fairness, trade, and inequality

H Egger, U Kreickemeier - Journal of International Economics, 2012 - Elsevier
We develop a model of international trade between two symmetric countries that features
inter-group inequality between managers and workers, and also intra-group inequality …

Trade, wages, and profits

H Egger, P Egger, U Kreickemeier - European Economic Review, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper formulates a structural empirical model of heterogeneous firms whose workers
exhibit fair-wage preferences, leading to a link between a firm's operating profits and wages …

Export diversification, specialisation and inequality: Evidence from Asian and Western countries

B Blancheton, D Chhorn - The Journal of International Trade & …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This paper examines the dynamic effect of globalization at the disaggregated level of
sectoral export diversification and manufacturing specialization on income inequality using a …

Unemployment and inflation: Evidence of a nonlinear Phillips curve in the Eurozone

SY Ho, BN Iyke - The Journal of Developing Areas, 2019 - JSTOR
The classical Phillips curve shows a negative relationship between inflation and
unemployment. However, various studies have documented temporal positive and negative …

Trade and labor market outcomes

E Helpman, O Itskhoki, S Redding - 2011 - nber.org
This paper reviews a new framework for analyzing the interrelationship between inequality,
unemployment, labor market frictions, and foreign trade. This framework emphasizes firm …

International fragmentation: Boon or bane for domestic employment?

H Egger, U Kreickemeier - European Economic Review, 2008 - Elsevier
In this paper, we introduce the fairness approach to efficiency wages into a standard model
of international fragmentation. This gives us a theoretical framework in which wage …