This study is a preliminary revision of the tineoid family Psychidae of North and South America (including the West Indies). The purpose of the present study is to re-evaluate the decisions of earlier workers; to complete and, where necessary, to correct their conclusions; and to investigate and utilize several taxonomic criteria in order facilitate identification and a more comprehensive understanding of the insects presently included in this family.

This paper develops a simple framework for examining human capital accumulation, unemployment, and relative wages in a global economy. It builds on the models of Davis (1997a, b) of trade between a flexible wage America and a rigid wage Europe. To this it adds a model of human capital accumulation based on Findlay and Kierzkowski (1983). A variety of comparative statics are examined, including changes in educational capital and population, entry of new countries to the trading world, technical change, and a productivity slowdown. We derive the consequences for the skilled-to-unskilled wage gap, unemployment, and skill composition.

Argues that globalization has led to higher unemployment rates in Western Europe than in the USA because of more rigid wage policies and a higher minimum wage in Europe.

Using trade models of economic geography and a Heckscher-Ohlin model, examines the role of economic geography in determining the cross-national structure of OECD manufacturing production.

This report represents the first review of the Carposinidae know to inhabit the Nearctic and Neotropical regions References treating the New World species previous to this account are exceedingly brief, largely devoid of illustrations or keys, and consist almost entirely of descriptions of new taxa.

Develops a model to examine the impact of trade liberalization on wages. Argues that trade liberalization will reduce wages in countries which are labour abundant relative to the global economy, if these same countries are capital abundant relative to countries in its reference set.