distribution of immigration elasticities of imports and exports across 48 studies that yielded 300 observations. The results show … on trade. The migrant elasticity of imports is larger than that of exports in about half the countries considered, but … the publication bias and heterogeneity-corrected elasticity is slightly larger for exports than for imports. …

Using firm level data on 70,000 enterprises in 107 countries, this paper finds important effects of access to finance … systematically by firm types. Micro and small firms have less access to formal finance, pay more in bribes than do larger firms, and … downward the size distribution of firms. In the case of finance and business regulations this occurs by reducing the employment …

We use linked employer-employee data from Italy to explore the relationship between exports and wages. Our empirical …

/2009. Almost all of the decline in exports was due to negative changes of exports in firms that continue to export (i.e. at the so …-called intensive margin) while the decrease of exports due to export stoppers (at the so-called extensive margin) was tiny. It is shown …

This paper documents the relationship between firm survival and three types of international trade activities - exports …

evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly …