A substantial body of research has taken shape on trade in services since the mid-1980s.
Much of this is inspired by the WTO and regional trade agreements. However, an increasing …

New developments in the world economy have triggered research designed to better
understand the changes in trade and investment patterns, and the reorganization of …

This paper evaluates the extent to which the world economy has entered a phase of
deglobalisation, and it offers some speculative thoughts on the future of global value chains …

Outsourcing Economics has a double meaning. First, it is a book about the economics of
outsourcing. Second, it examines the way that economists have understood globalization as …

We combine the concept of location derived by economic geographers with theories of the
multinational enterprise (MNE) and the liability of foreignness developed by international …

Free enterprise is off the leash and chasing new opportunities for profit making across the
globe. After a turbulent century of unprecedented social and technological change …

We begin this chapter on the digitization of the market for contract labor with three
observations. First, this market is growing rapidly in terms of the number and variety of …

Does globalization's impact on the labor market affect how people vote? I address this
question using a new dataset based on plant-level data that measures the impact of foreign …

Higher education is currently confronted by global forces that necessitate innovative
research, innovative pedagogies, and innovative organizational structures. For these …

This paper develops a set of innovative tools for labor market intelligence by applying
machine learning techniques to web vacancies on the Italian labor market. Our approach …