The paper analyses the relationship between within-country income inequality and policies of domestic liberalization and external globalization. The models used to provide the rationale for such reforms—such as the Hecksher-Ohlin model—usually predict a decline in inequality. However, the evidence shows that inequality often rose with the introduction of such reforms. The paper tries to explain...

Hecksher-Ohlin model predicts that gains to trade should flow to abundant factors, which suggests that in developing countries, unskilled labor would benefit most from trade liberalization. The rising skill-premium in the US is often cited in support of standard trade theory. However, these predictions have been challenged by Cunat and Maffezzoli (2001) and Kremer and Maskin (2003). According t...

Leslie H. Sherlin, Martijn Arns, Joel Lubar, Hartmut Heinrich, Cynthia Kerson, Ute Strehl, M. Barry Sterman Neurotopia, Inc., Los Angeles, California, USA Nova Tech EEG, Inc., Mesa, Arizona, USA Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine, Tempe, Arizona, USA Research Institute Brainclinics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Department of Experimental Psychology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherl...

R e c e n t trade theory literature has devoted considerable attent ion to trade in services. A t issue is whether trade in services can be adequately explained by existing models or whether there are l ikely to be any n e w insights to be gained by considering services as dist inct f rom goods. T h i s paper provides a selective survey of the relevant theoretical literature and considers sever...

This paper traces the main lines of evolution of the organization of professional work. The argument is illustrated with material on the case of doctors and hospitals. Market and hierarchy principles have become progressively more salient in professional work; but we argue that in parallel, the community principle has been growing more influential too. Building on Adler and Heckscher (2006), we...