International fragmentation and relative wages in the

This paper uses a specific-factors model incorporating two sectors, in order to explore the efficiency and distributional consequences of international disintegration of production. The economy faces a neighboring region where the wage rate is lower than obtaining in the domestic economy under

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P14702, entitled: “Public Finance, Unemployment and Growth”. Thanks are due to Gabriel Felbermayr for very helpful comments on an earlier version. Factor price frontiers with international fragmentation of multistage production by

The emergence of international fragmentation of production as a contemporary phenomenon of international trade is evident from the rapid expansion of global production sharing and the impressive growth of trade in parts and components since the 1990s. Up until now, various studies have illustrated

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Abstract In this paper we assess whether the expansion of international fragmentation of production (IFP) and the creation of production linkages among European countries contribute to the trade imbalances registered within the European Union (EU) area in the past decade. Exporting intermediate

critique the disparate literature on graphical representations, focusing on four representative studies. Our analysis reveals a fragmented and poorly understood account of how graphical representations work, exposing a number of assumptions and fallacies. As an alternative we propose a new agenda