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Staff Studies by Subject Group
STAFF RESEARCH STUDIES
TRADE RELATIONS AND POLICIES; INTERNATIONAL
ECONOMIC INTEGRATION
"A Utilitarian Welfare Analysis of Trade Liberalization," by Robert C. Shelburne. Presented at the ASSA, Washington, DC, January 2003.
"Improving the Economic Performance of the Global Economy: The Challenges Ahead," by Robert C. Shelburne, in the Global Economy Quarterly, Volume 3, No. 2 (June), 2002. Presented as the Presidential Address to the International Trade and Finance Association, Ramkhamhaeng University, Bangkok, Thailand, May 2002.
"U.S.-Caribbean Trade Relations: The First Fifteen Years of the Caribbean Basin Initiative" by Gregory K. Schoepfle, pp. 117-149 in Irma T. Alonso (ed.), Caribbean Economies in the Twenty-first Century (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida Press, 2002).
"Trade Liberalization and Intra-Industry Trade: The Case of the United States and Mexico," by Robert C. Shelburne, in the Global Economy Quarterly, Volume 2, No. 3 (September), pp. 215-234, 2001.
"U.S.-Mexico Intra-Industry Trade: Not the European Experience," by Robert C. Shelburne, Papers and Proceedings of the
International Trade and Finance Association, 2001. Presented at the ITFA Meetings in Washington, DC, 2001.
"Globalization and the U.S. Labor Market"
by Robert C. Shelburne, presented at the Eastern Economic Association, Boston, Mass., March 1999.
"The Mexican Economy in the
1990s: Boom or Bust?" by Robert C. Shelburne, pp.167-186 in Farok
J. Contractor (ed.), Economic Transformation in Emerging Countries:
The Role of Investment, Trade and Finance (Oxford, UK: Elsevier
Science, 1998).
"Those Ever Changing and Unexplainable
Mexican Exports to the United States" by Robert C. Shelburne in
Papers and Proceedings of the International Trade and Finance
Association, 1998 (Laredo, TX: Texas A&M; International University,
1998).
"US-Caribbean Trade Relations over the Last Decade: From CBI to ACS" by Gregory K. Schoepfle, pp. 101-150 in Ransford W. Palmer (ed.), The Repositioning of US-Caribbean Relations in the New Order (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997).
"U.S.-Mexico Trade Under NAFTA: Two
Different Years, Two Different Stories" by Robert C. Shelburne,
in Papers and Proceedings of the International Trade and Finance
Association, 1996 (Laredo, TX: Texas A&M; International University,
1996).
"U.S.-Caribbean Trade Relations Over the Last Decade: From CBI to ACS" by Gregory
Schoepfle, presented at the 21st Annual Caribbean
Studies Association Conference in San Juan, Puerto, May 27-31, 1996.
"The Staging Pattern of U.S. Tariff
Reductions under NAFTA" by Robert C. Shelburne, pp. 73-82 in
Mordechai Kreinin (ed.), Contemporary Issues in Commercial Policy
(Oxford, UK: Pergamon Press, 1995).
"Andean Trade Preferences: An Alternative
to Coca?" by Robert C. Shelburne, in Papers and Proceedings of
the International Trade and Finance Association, 1995 (Laredo, TX:
Texas A&M; International University, 1995).
"New Trade Winds Sweep Across North America" by Gregory K. Schoepfle, Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy, 10:2 (Summer
1995), pp. 5-14.
"The NAFTA Transitional Adjustment Assistance Program: A Summary
of Program Activity During the First Year" by Gregory K. Schoepfle,
March 24, 1995.
"The Staging of Mexican Imports Under the NAFTA," by Robert C.
Shelburne, Papers and Proceedings of the International Trade and
Finance Association, 1994 (Laredo, TX: Texas A&M; International
University, 1994).
"A Review of the Assessments of the Likely Economic Impact of
NAFTA on the United States" by Gregory K. Schoepfle, Economic
Discussion Paper 44, December 1993.
"The Labor Market Impacts of NAFTA," by Gregory K. Schoepfle, pp.
10-14 in Sven W. Ardnt and Robert M. Dunn, Jr. (eds.), NAFTA Faces
the Congress: Issues and Prospects, A Lowe Institute Policy Study
(Claremont, CA: Claremont McKenna College, September 1993).
"The Effects of the NAFTA and the ATPA on
the Caribbean Basin Countries" by Robert C. Shelburne, Papers and
Proceedings of the International Trade and Finance Association, 1993
(Laredo, TX: Texas A&M; International University, 1993); also in
Dominick Salvatore and Khosrow Fatemi (eds.), The North American Free
Trade Agreement (London: Pergamon Press, 1994).
"U.S. Employment Effects of a North American Free Trade
Agreement: A Survey of Issues and Estimated Employment Effects" by
Gregory K. Schoepfle and Jorge F. Perez-Lopez, Economic Discussion
Paper 40, July 1992.
"Labor Issues Related to a U.S.--Mexico FTA: A View from the
North" by Gregory K. Schoepfle, paper presented at a seminar entitled
Mercados de Trabajo: Una Perspectiva Comparativa, Tendencias
Generales y Cambios Recientes at El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico City,
Mexico, October 23-26, 1991; reprinted as "Problemas Laborales en
Torno a Un TLC entre Estados Unidos y México: Un Punto de
Vista del Norte," pp. 293-306 in Nelson Minello (ed.) Ajuste Estructural, Mercados Laborales y TLC
(México, DF: El Colegio
de México, Centro de Estudios Sociológicos, 1992).
"Research Summary: Industrial Effects of a
Free Trade Agreement Between Mexico and the USA by Interindustry
Economic Research Fund, Inc." by Clinton R. Shiells and Robert C.
Shelburne, March 12, 1991; reprinted, pp. 5-19 in Economy-wide
Modeling of the Economic Implications of a FTA with Mexico and a
NAFTA with Canada and Mexico, USITC Publication 2508 (Washington, DC:
U.S. International Trade Commission, May 1992).
"U.S.-Mexico Free Trade Agreement: The Maquilazation of Mexico?"
by Gregory K. Schoepfle, April 18, 1990.
"The North American Free Trade Agreement:
Comparisons With and Lessons From Southern EC Enlargement" by
Robert C. Shelburne, Economic Discussion Paper 39, November 1991;
revised version in Khosrow Fatemi (ed.), The North American Free
Trade Agreement: Opportunities and Challenges (London: Mac Millian
Press, 1993).
"The North American Auto Industry at the Onset of Continental
Free Trade Negotiations" by Stephen Herzenberg, Economic Discussion
Paper 38, November 1991.
"The Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement: A Summary of Empirical
Studies and an Industrial Profile of the Tariff Reductions" by Brian
F. Shea, Economic Discussion Paper 28, March 1988.
"Implications for U.S. Employment of the Recent Growth in Mexican
Maquiladoras" by Gregory K. Schoepfle, paper presented at the annual
meeting of the Association of Borderlands Scholars in Tijuana, Baja
California Norte, Mexico, February 21-24, 1990; revised version
appears in Revista Frontera Norte, 3:5(January-June 1991), pp. 25-54.
"The Impact of Maquiladoras on U.S. National Employment and
Employment in Selected Industrial Sectors" by Gregory K. Schoepfle
and Jorge F. Perez-Lopez, pp. 37-56 in Khosrow Fatemi (ed.), The
Maquiladora Industry: Economic Solution or Problem? (New York: Praeger, 1990).
"Statement on the Caribbean Basin Initiative and the Mexican
Maquiladora Program" by Gregory K. Schoepfle at a Public Hearing of
the Commission for the Study of International Migration and
Cooperative Economic Development, April 20, 1989; pp. 157-163 in
Unauthorized Migration: Addressing the Root Causes, Hearings before
the Commission for the Study of International Migration and
Cooperative Economic Development, 1987-1990, to accompany the final
report of the Commission Unauthorized Migration: An Economic
Development Response (Washington, DC: Commission for the Study of
International Migration and Cooperative Economic Development, July
1990).
"The Employment Aspects of the Uruguay
Round" by Robert C. Shelburne, 1990.
"The Impact of TSUS 806.30 and 807.00 on U.S. Employment: A
Survey of Estimates" by Gregory K. Schoepfle and Jorge F.
Perez-Lopez, paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association
of Borderlands Scholars, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 29, 1989.
"U.S. Employment Impact of TSUS 806.30 and 807.00 Provisions and
Mexican Maquiladoras: A Survey of Issues and Estimates" by G.K.
Schoepfle and J.F. Perez-Lopez, Economic Discussion Paper 29, August
1988.
"Special U.S.-Caribbean Economic Relations" by Joseph Pelzman and
Gregory K. Schoepfle, pp. 175-215 in Irma de Alonso (ed.) Trade
Issues in the Caribbean (Philadelphia: Gordon and Breach, 1992).
"The Structure of U.S.-Caribbean and Central American Trade in
the 1990's: Will the Need Continue for U.S. Trade Preferences and
Development Assistance?" by Joseph Pelzman and Gregory K. Schoepfle,
paper presented at the North American Economics and Finance
Association meetings, Chicago, December 28, 1987.
"Emerging Themes from a Working Roundtable" by Gregory K.
Schoepfle and Jorge F. Perez-Lopez, pp. 125-134 in EC 1992:
Implications for U.S. Workers, Jorge F. Perez-Lopez, Gregory K. Schoepfle, and John Yochelson (eds.), Significant Issues Series
(Washington, DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies,
1990).
"The European Community 1992 Program and U.S. Workers" by Robert C. Shelburne and Gregory Schoepfle, in Monthly Labor Review, Volume 113, Number 11, November 1990.
"The Implications of EC-1992 for the
United States" by Robert Shelburne, 1989.
"Probable Trade and Employment Effects of the United States
Granting Most Favored Nation Status to the USSR: A Survey of Issues
and Estimates" by Jorge F. Perez-Lopez and Gregory K. Schoepfle,
Economic Discussion Paper 34, August 1990.
"GATT Safeguards: A Critical Review of Article XIX and Its
Implementation in Selected Countries" by Jorge F. Perez-Lopez,
Economic Discussion Paper 26, February 1987.
"The Impact of Offsets on Domestic Employment" by Harry J. Gilman
and Brian F. Shea, Economic Discussion Paper 18, March 1987.
"Termination of the Manufacturing Clause: An Analysis of
Potential Employment Effects" by G.K. Schoepfle, J.F. Perez-Lopez,
and M.F. Moore, Economic Discussion Paper 19, February 1986.
WORKFORCE TRAINING, ASSISTANCE,
ALLOCATION; LABOR FORCE AND SUPPLY
"U.S. Trade Adjustment Assistance Policies for Workers" by Gregory K. Schoepfle, pp.95-122 in Alan V. Deardorff and Robert M. Stern (eds.), Social Dimensions of U.S. Trade Policy (Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press, 2000).
"Returns to Classroom Training of Displaced Workers" by Louis
Jacobson (Westat), Robert LaLonde (University of Chicago), Dan
Sullivan (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago), and Robert Bednarzik
(U.S. Department of Labor), paper presented at CERF Workshop on
Displaced Workers and Policy Responses, Université du
Québec, Montréal, Québec, December 2-3,
1994.
"Is Job Stability Declining in the U.S. Economy?" by Kenneth A.
Swinnerton and Howard Wial, Economic Discussion Paper 42, September
1993. Subsequently published in the Industrial and Labor Relations
Review, 48:2 (January 1995), pp. 293-304; see also, "Is Job Stability
Declining in the U.S. Economy? Reply to Diebold, Neumark and Polsky,"
Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 49:2 (January 1996), pp.
352-355.
"Analysis of the Dislocated Workers' Educational Training Program (DWETP): A Locally Funded Voucher-Like Program in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania" by Robert Bednarzik (U.S. Department of Labor) and
Louis Jacobson (Westat), September 1992; revised paper presented at
the 1993 Western Economic Association Meetings, Lake Tahoe, Nevada,
June 30-July 3, 1993.
"Geographic Concentration of
Trade-Sensitive Employment" by Robert C. Shelburne and Robert W. Bednarzik, Monthly Labor Review 116:6 (June 1993), pp. 3-13.
"U.S. Labor Market Adjustment Programs" by Robert Bednarzik and
Malcolm Lovell, paper prepared for the Competitiveness Policy
Council, Washington, DC, January 7, 1992.
"The Geographic Concentration of Employment and Some Implications
for Trade and Adjustment" by Robert Shelburne and Robert Bednarzik,
paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Society of
Economists, San Antonio, TX, March 4-6, 1992; revised version in
Journal of the Southwestern Society of Economists, 19:2 (1992), pp.
52-62.
"Trade-Sensitive U.S. Industries: Employment Trends and Worker
Characteristics" by Robert W. Bednarzik, Economic Discussion Paper
36, July 1991; subsequently published as "Analysis of U.S. Industries
Sensitive to International Trade," in the Monthly Labor Review, 116:2
(February 1993), pp. 15-31.
"The 'Quality' of U.S. Jobs" by Robert W. Bednarzik, Economic
Discussion Paper 25, December 1987; subsequently published in The
Service Industries Journal, 8:2 (April 1988), pp. 127-135.
"Labor-Management Conflict and Cooperation: The Role of Shop
Floor Leaders" by Stephen Herzenberg with J. Cutcher-Gershenfeld and
J. Chalykoff; published by the Bureau of Labor-Management Relations,
U.S. Department of Labor, Publication BLMR 131, 1988.
"A Special Focus on Employment Growth in Business Services and
Retail Trade" by Robert Bednarzik, pp. 67-79 in T. Noyelle (ed.),
Skills, Wages, and Productivity in the Service Sector, Conservation
of Human Resources Studies in the New Economy (Boulder, CO: Westview
Press, 1990).
COMPARATIVE AND COUNTRY STUDIES
"Role of Entrepreneurship in U.S. and European Job Growth," by Robert W.
Bednarzik, Monthly Labor Review, Volume 123, No. 7, July 2000.
"The 'Hard-Core' Unemployed" by Robert W. Bednarzik, Chapter IV in
Centre for Co-operation With the Economies in Transition, Review of
the Labour Market in the Czech Republic (Paris: Organisation for
Economic Co-operation and Development, 1995).
Background Papers Prepared by the U.S. Department of Labor Staff
for the G-7 Jobs Conference Held March 14,1994 in Detroit, Michigan
(U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of International Labor Affairs, May
1994).
"Helping Poland Cope with Unemployment," by Robert W. Bednarzik,
Monthly Labor Review, 113:12 (December 1990), 25-34.
"The Importance of a Social Dimension for Western Assistance in
Poland" by Robert W. Bednarzik, 1990.
"Comment upon Innovation and Labour Market Adjustments by Ronald Schettkat" by Robert W.
Bednarzik, pp. 189-196 in Egon Matzner and
Michael Wagner (eds.) The Employment Impact of Technology: The Case
of West Germany (Aldershot, England: Avebury/Gower, 1990).
"Employment Dimensions of Economic Restructuring: A Review of Related
Labor Policies and Programs in Industrialized Countries" by David H. Fretwell, Malcolm Lovell, and Robert W.
Bednarzik, published by
Population and Human Resources Division, Technical Department,
Europe, Middle East and North Africa Region (Washington, DC: World
Bank, April 30, 1991).
"Facilitating Worker Adjustment: Canada's IAS Program" by Robert W. Bednarzik, The Entrepreneurial Economy, 4:8 (May 1986), pp. 6-8.
"Employment Profile of the Service Sector in Selected Countries" by
Robert W. Bednarzik, paper presented at an OECD/CERI seminar on the
Effects of Structural Change on Employment and Training in the
Service Sector as part of the Project on Technological Change and
Human Resource Development in the Service Sector, Washington, DC,
June 14-15, 1989.
"Evaluations of Programs in Industrialized Countries to Assist
Workers Displaced by Structural Change: A Summary" by Robert W. Bednarzik, Evaluation Forum, 7 (June 1990), pp. 51-53.
"Structural Change and Labor Market Adjustment: A United States-Japan
Comparison" by R.W. Bednarzik and C.R. Shiells, Economic Discussion
Paper 31, June 1988; subsequently published as "Labor Market Changes
and Adjustments: How Do the U.S. and Japan Compare?" in Monthly Labor
Review, 112:2 (February 1989), pp. 31-42.
"Damage Control: Yen Appreciation and the Japanese Labor Market," by
G. Halm and C.R. Shiells, Monthly Labor Review, 111:11 (November
1988), pp. 3-6.
"Assembly Operations in Central America" by Gregory K. Schoepfle and
Jorge F. Perez-Lopez, pp. 117-152 in Irma T. de Alonso (ed.), Trade,
Industrialization, and Integration in Twentieth-Century Central
America (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1994).
"Export-Oriented Assembly Operations in the Caribbean" by Gregory K.
Schoepfle and Jorge F. Perez-Lopez, pp. 125-158 in Irma de Alonso
(ed.), Trade Issues in the Caribbean (Philadelphia: Gordon and
Breach, 1992).
"Review of Assembling for Development: The Maquila Industry in Mexico
and the United States (Boston, MA: Unwin Hyman, 1989) by Leslie Sklair" by Gregory K.
Schoepfle, Journal of Interamerican Studies and
World Affairs, 33:2 (Summer 1991), pp. 181-188.
"Export Assembly Operations in Mexico and the Caribbean" by Gregory
K. Schoepfle and Jorge F. Perez-Lopez, Journal of Interamerican
Studies and World Affairs, 31:4 (Winter 1989), pp. 131-161.
"Employment Implications of Export Assembly Operations in Mexico and
the Caribbean Basin" by Gregory K. Schoepfle and Jorge F.
Perez-Lopez, Working Paper 16 (Washington, DC: Commission for the
Study of International Migration and Cooperative Economic
Development, 1990); reprinted, pp. 937-976 in Unauthorized Migration:
Addressing the Root Causes, Research Addendum, volume II, sponsored
by the Commission for the Study of International Migration and
Cooperative Economic Development, 1987-1990, to accompany the final
report of the Commission Unauthorized Migration: An Economic
Development Response (Washington, DC: Commission for the Study of
International Migration and Cooperative Economic Development, July
1990); reprinted, pp. 13-52 in Sergio Diaz-Briquets and Sidney
Weintraub (eds.), Migration Impacts of Trade and Foreign Investment:
Mexico and Caribbean Basin Countries (Boulder, CO: Westview Press,
1991).
"Offshore Assembly in Mexico and the Caribbean and Its Implications
for the United States and Host Countries" by Gregory K. Schoepfle and
Jorge F. Perez-Lopez, paper presented at the North American Economics
and Finance Association meetings, New York City, December 28,
1988.
"The Impact of the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act on the
Caribbean Nations' Exports and Development" by Joseph Pelzman and
Gregory K. Schoepfle, Economic Discussion Paper 23, December 1986;
subsequently published in Economic Development and Cultural Change,
36:4 (July 1988), pp. 753-796; see also "A Reply," Economic
Development and Cultural Change, 38:4 (July 1990), pp. 851-854.
"U.S. Trade Policy and Its Implications for Small Countries such as
Haiti," remarks by Gregory K. Schoepfle before the Haitian-American
Chamber of Commerce in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, April 22, 1987.
CHILD LABOR AND EDUCATION
"A Theory of Exploitative Child Labor," by Kenneth A. Swinnerton and Carol Ann Rogers, July 2005.
"The SIMPOC Philippine Survey of Children 2001: A Data Source for Analyzing Occupational
Injuries to Children." by Charita Castro, Sarah Gormly, and Amy R. Ritualo, forthcoming in
Public
Health Reports, 2005.
"Does Child Labor Decrease when Parental Incomes Rise?" by Carol Ann Rogers and Kenneth A.
Swinnerton, Journal
of Political Economy, Vol. 112(4), August 2004, pp. 939-946.
"The Effect of Adult Returns to Schooling on
Children’s School Enrollment, Theory and Evidence from South Africa," by Sarah Gormly and
Kenneth A. Swinnerton, June 2004, presented at Conference on African Economics, Oxford
University, March 2004; Conference on 75 Years of Development Economics, Cornell University,
May 2004; Conference of Northeastern Universities Development Consortium, HEC-Montreal, October
2004; to be presented at 2005 North American Winter Meetings of the Econometric Society.
"Measuring Child Labor: Implications for Policy and Program Design." by Amy R. Ritualo,
Charita Castro, and Sarah Gormly,
Comparative Labor Law and Policy
Journal, Vol. 24(2), 2003, pp. 401-434.
"Inequality, Productivity and Child Labor: Theory and
Evidence" by Carol Ann Rogers and Kenneth Swinnerton, April 2000.
"The Economics of Child Labor: Comment" by Kenneth A. Swinnerton and
Carol Ann Rogers, American Economic Review, Vol.89 (5), December 1999, pp.1382-1385.
INTERNATIONAL LABOR STANDARDS
"Slave Redemption When it Takes Time to Redeem
Slaves" by Carol Ann Rogers and Kenneth A. Swinnerton, October 2004, to be presented at
Allied Social Sciences Association Meetings in January 2005.
"A Model of Informal Sector Labor Markets," by
Carol Ann Rogers and Kenneth A. Swinnerton, December 2004, presented at Conference on 75 Years
of Development Economics, Cornell University, May 2004; Conference of Northeastern Universities
Develoment Consortion, HEC-Montreal, October 2004.
"Wage Differentials, Monopsony Labor Markets, and the International Labor Standards Debate," by Robert C. Shelburne, forthcoming, Journal of Economic Integration, 2003. Presented at the ASSA meetings, Atlanta, GA 2002.
"Labor Standards as a Trade Issue," by Robert C. Shelburne, in Khosrow Fatemi (ed.), The New World Order: Internationalism, Regionalism, and the Multinational Corporations, New York: Pergamon Press, pp. 54-73 (chapter 4), 2000.
"The Trade-Labor Standards Linkage: Issues and Prospects"
by Robert C. Shelburne, presented at the Allied Social Science Association meetings, New York, NY, January 1999.
"An Essay on Core Labor Standards and Economic Efficiency" by Kenneth A. Swinnerton in
The
World Economy, 20:1, January 1997, pp.73-86.
"Labor Standards in the Context of a Global Economy," by Kenneth A.
Swinnerton and Gregory K. Schoepfle, Monthly Labor Review, 117:9
(September 1994), pp. 52-58.
"Emerging Themes" by Kenneth A. Swinnerton and Gregory K. Schoepfle,
pp. 65-70 in Gregory K. Schoepfle and Kenneth Swinnerton (eds.),
International Labor Standards and Global Economic Integration:
Proceedings of a Symposium (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Labor,
Bureau of International Labor Affairs, July 1994).
"Work and Protections in the Informal Sector" by Gregory K. Schoepfle
and Jorge F. Perez-Lopez, pp. 247-279 in Gregory K. Schoepfle and
Jorge F. Perez-Lopez (eds.), Work Without Protections: Case Studies
of the Informal Sector in Developing Countries (Washington, DC: U.S.
Department of Labor, Bureau of International Labor Affairs,
1993).
"The Informal Sector and Worker Rights" by Jorge F. Perez-Lopez and
Gregory K. Schoepfle, Part III in Secretary of Labor's Biennial
Worker Rights Report, Submitted to Congress Under the Omnibus Trade
and Competitiveness Act of 1988 (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of
Labor, Bureau of International Labor Affairs, 1992).
"Labor Standards and Development in the Global Economy" by Stephen A. Herzenberg, Jorge F. Perez-Lopez, and Stuart K. Tucker, pp. 1-16 in
Stephen A. Herzenberg and Jorge F. Perez-Lopez (eds.), Labor
Standards and Development in the Global Economy (Washington, DC: U.S.
Department of Labor, Bureau of International Labor Affairs,
1990).
"Labor Standards in Export Assembly Operations in Mexico and the
Caribbean" by Gregory K. Schoepfle, paper presented at the annual
meetings of the North American Economics and Finance Association,
Atlanta, GA, December 29, 1989; revised version released in the
Bureau of International Labor Affairs Series on Worker Rights, June
1990.
"Worker Rights in Export Processing Zones: Mexico" by Gregory K.
Schoepfle and Peter Accolla, pp. 43-95 in Worker Rights in Export
Processing Zones, Report Submitted to Congress Under the Omnibus
Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988, volume II (Washington, DC:
U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of International Labor Affairs,
August 1990).
"Worker Rights in Export Processing Zones: Philippines" by Glenn Halm
and Gregory K. Schoepfle, pp. 163-182 in Worker Rights in Export
Processing Zones, Report Submitted to Congress Under the Omnibus
Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988, volume II (Washington, DC:
U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of International Labor Affairs,
August 1990).
"Institutionalizing Constructive Competition: Internationally
Recognized Labor Standards and Trade" by Stephen A. Herzenberg,
Economic Discussion Paper 32, September 1988.
"Worker Rights and U.S. Trade Law" by Jorge F. Perez-Lopez, Economic
Discussion Paper 27, April 1987; subsequently published as
"Conditioning Trade on Foreign Labor Law: The U.S. Approach" in
Comparative Labor Law Journal, 9:2 (Winter 1988), pp. 253-292.
TECHNICAL PAPERS
"The Role of Intra-Industry Trade in the Service Sector," by Robert C. Shelburne and Jorge Gonzalez. Presented at a Conference on Empirical Methods in International Trade: Essays in Honor of Mordechai Kreinin, John Hopkins
School of Advanced International Studies, Washington, DC, January 2003.
"Bilateral Intra-Industry Trade in a Multi-Country Helpman-Krugman Model" by Robert C. Shelburne,
International Economic Journal, Volume 16, No. 4, Winter 2002, pp.53-74. Presented at the
Ecole Superieure de Commerce de Montpellier, France, June 2000.
"An Explanation of the International Variation in the Prevalence of Child Labor"
by Robert C. Shelburne, The World Economy, Volume 24, No. 3 (March), 2001, pp. 359-378.
"Intra-Industry Trade in the Service Sector: Measurement and Implications," by Robert C. Shelburne and Jorge G. Gonzalez,
Papers and Proceedings of the International Trade and Finance Association, 2001. Presented at the ITFA Meetings in Washington, DC 2001.
"Child Labor, Openness, and Country Size"
by Robert C. Shelburne, in Khosrow Fatemi and Susan E.W. Nichols (Eds.), International Business at the Turn of the Century, Volume II, Calexico, CA: ITFA, 2000. Presented at the Allied Social Science Association, Boston Mass., January 2000.
"The Inadequacy of the Current International Monetary
System" by Robert C. Shelburne, in Khosrow Fatemi (ed.) International Public Policy and Regionalism at the Turn of the Century, Oxford, UK: Elsevier Science, pp.337-352, 2001; also,
Papers and Proceedings of the International Trade
and Finance Association, Volume 1, Chapter 4, 1999, pp.49-62.
"The Macroeconomics of Commercial Policy and the Trade Balance: A Policy Perspective" by Robert C. Shelburne
The International Trade Journal X:1 (Spring 1996), pp. 63-83.
"Heterogeneous Workers and Endogenous Membership in a Model of Trade
Union Behavior" by Kenneth A. Swinnerton, November 1994.
"Changing Trade Patterns and the Intra-Industry Trade Index" by Robert C. Shelburne in
Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv 129:4 (December 1993).
"Minimum Wages in an Equilibrium Search Model with Diminishing
Returns to Labor in Production" by Kenneth A. Swinnerton, paper
presented at the International Conference on Minimum Wages and Low
Pay, sponsored by the Universite D'Aix-Marseille III, the EC, and
BIT, Arles, France, September 30 and October 1, 1993; revised in
Journal
of Labor Economics (April 1996),14(2), pp.340-355.
"The Effects of Relative Country Size and
Endowment Similarity in Influencing Trade Volume and Composition in
General Equilibrium Monopolistically Competitive Markets" by
Robert C. Shelburne, The International Trade Journal, V:3 (Spring
1991), pp. 361-401.
"Estimates of the Elasticities of Substitution between Imports and
Home Goods for the U.S." and "Reply" by Clinton R. Shiells, Robert M.
Stern, and Alan V. Deardorff, Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, 122:3
(1986), pp. 497-519 and 125:2 (1989), pp. 371-374.
"A Ratio Test of Trade Intensity and
Per-Capita Income Similarity" by Robert C. Shelburne,
Weltwirschaftliches Archiv, 123:3 (1987), pp. 474-487.
"Measurement Errors in Unit-Value Proxies for Import Prices" by
Clinton R. Shiells, Economic Discussion Paper 24, December 1987;
revised and subsequently published as "Errors in Import-Demand
Estimates Based Upon Unit-Value Indexes," Review of Economics and
Statistics, LXXIII:2 (May 1991), pp. 378-382.
"Competition and Complementarity between U.S. Imports From Developed
and Newly Industrializing Countries" by Clinton R. Shiells, Economic
Discussion Paper 22, November 1987; subsequently published in
Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, 125:1 (1989), pp. 114-128.
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