This paper studies how a positive export shock - the sharp increase in garment-sector exports that began at the end of … exogenous to Bangladesh, the authors instrument export demand with OECD imports to ensure identification. The paper compares … estimates of the local labor market effects (wages and informality) and estimates from wage equations that reflect the …

migrants, those remaining in the sending areas, and people already living in the recipient locations. The topics vary widely … distinctions in culture between migrants, the families they left behind, and the local population in the migration destination. The … populations reaction to migrants, the political culture of the migrants and local population, links to the country-of-origin, and …

women. In Egypt, the limited impact of trade on formal employment is attributable to the small size of the nation's export …. Given their idiosyncratic labor markets, export diversification, and trade policy history, these three countries other … with the concentration of trade in male-dominated capital-intensive sectors, led to few employment benefits accruing to …

firm employment and exports. The results show that tariffs have fallen and trade as a share of gross domestic product has … that increases in employment from exports has occurred mainly in male, capital-intensive sectors …