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Table of Contents
1 Trade Adjustment Costs in Developing Countries: Impacts, Determinants and Policy Responses
Part A. Adjustment costs
2 Modeling, Measuring, and Compensating the Adjustment Costs Associated with Trade Reforms
Carl Davidson and Steven Matusz
3 A Structural Empirical Approach to Trade Shocks and Labor Adjustment: An Application to Turkey
Erhan Artuç and John McLaren
4 Reallocation and Adjustment in the Manufacturing Sector in Uruguay
Carlos Casacuberta and Néstor Gandelman
5 Trade Reforms in Natural-Resource-Abundant Economies
Jaime de Melo
6 Barriers to Exit from Subsistence Agriculture
Olivier Cadot, Laure Dutoit and Marcelo Olarreaga
Part B. Adjustment impacts
7 Trade Reform, Employment Allocation and Worker Flows
Marc-Andreas Muendler
8 Adjustment to Trade Policy in Developing Countries
Gordon H. Hanson
9 Production Offshoring and Labor Markets: Recent Evidence and a Research Agenda
Margaret S. McMillan
10 Trade Adjustment and Labor Income Risk
Pravin Krishna and Mine Zeynep Senses
11 Trade, Child Labor, and Schooling in Poor Countries
Eric V. Edmonds
12 Adjustment to Internal Migration
Gordon H. Hanson
13 Exporter Adjustment to the End of Trade Preferences: Evidence from the Abrupt End of Textile and Apparel Quotas
James Harrigan
14 New Kids on the Block: Adjustment of Indigenous Producers to FDI Inflows
Beata S. Javorcik
15 Adjustment to Foreign Changes in Trade Policy Under the WTO System
Chad P. Bown
Part C. Factors that affect trade
16 Transportation Costs and Adjustments to Trade
David Hummels
17 The Duration of Trade Relationships
Tibor Besedeš and Thomas J. Prusa
18 Openness and Export Dynamics: New Research Directions
James Tybout
19 Market Penetration Cost and International Trade
Costas Arkolakis and Olga Timoshenko
20 Taking Advantage of Trade: The role of Distortions
Kala Krishna
21 Credit Constraints and the Adjustment to Trade Reform
Kalina Manova
22 Standards, Trade and Developing Countries
Johan F M Swinnen and Miet Maertens
Part D. Adjustment programs
23 Notes on American Adjustment Policies for Global-integration Pressures
J David Richardson
24 Compensation Payments in EU Agriculture
Johan F M Swinnen and Kristine Van Herck