This paper reviews the empirical literature on the effects of offshoring and foreign activities of
multinational enterprises on developed countries' labour markets. Results suggest that …

This paper reviews some puzzling economic aspects of globalization and argues that they
cannot be satisfactorily addressed in perfectly or monopolistically competitive models …

This paper proposes a new mechanism linking trade and wage inequality in develo**
countries—the quality-upgrading mechanism—and investigates its empirical implications in …

Market size matters for innovation and hence for productivity. Improved access to foreign
markets will thus encourage firms to simultaneously export and invest in raising productivity …

This paper presents a general equilibrium trade model in which homogeneous firms choose
a technology from a set of competing technologies and choose employees from a set of …

We use Belgian manufacturing firm-level data over the period 1996–2007 to analyze the
impact of imports from different origins on firm employment growth, exit, and skill upgrading …

This paper considers a dynamic model of innovations in which firms can endogenously bias
the direction of technological change. Both in a North–North and North–South context, we …

European Union countries have implemented widespread reforms to product markets to
stimulate competition, innovation, and economic growth. We provide empirical evidence that …

This article suggests that international trade, even between identical countries, can raise the
relative demand for skilled labour. It shows that a simple generalisation of model of trade in …

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 …