In "new" new international trade theory, whether firms export or not are determined by their productivity. These models … an alternative way to model whether firms export or not, namely as a firm-level decision akin to an investment decision …

We study the labor market outcomes of males aged 18-60 obtaining an urban hukou as a result of land expropriation …-à-vis native urbanites. We also find that children of families experiencing a hukou change due to expropriation have similar … investment in human capital as the children of native urban hukou holders. The results confirm the hukou status as a strong …

in wage disputes that were settled by final-offer arbitration in New Jersey. The paper also reports briefly on similar … agreeing not to hire lawyers is cheaper and does not appear to alter arbitration outcomes. …

North American Trade Agreement (NAFTA). In all industries, an overwhelming share of aggregate productivity growth is … economic environment and their contributions to aggregate productivity growth in the period following the implementation of the … accounted for by a small number of plants which were larger and more productive before the implementation of NAFTA and expanded …

-entry convex costs of adjusting their exporting activity and, as a result, a significant share of the productivity gains from trade …

This study examines the effect of NAFTA, an instance of North-South trade liberalization, on returns to skill in Mexico … slowly by this phased trade treaty. This is considered evidence of NAFTA holding back rise in returns to skill, since it is …. Mexico is abundant in low-skill workers relative to the US and Canada, and so, by the Hecksher-Ohlin-Samuelson trade model …

In this paper we study the effect of NAFTA on the responsiveness of Mexican economy to real exchange rate shocks. We … argue that, by opening the U.S. and Canadian markets to Mexican goods, NAFTA made it easier for domestic producers to take …-level data and compare the behavior of employment, production and investment after two big real exchange rate shocks: the first …

specific institutional setting: The North American Free-Trade Agreement (NAFTA). We compare plants' productivity growth and … the more significant vehicle for productivity enhancing effects of trade openness. Investment in technology is, by far …This paper analyzes the performance of Mexican manufacturing firms following trade liberalization within a very …