import as well as the export activity of the firm. These two innovations allow us to avoid large biases that characterized … recent theories that aim at explaining participation both in export and import markets and at including non …

It is widely believed that globalization increases the volatility of employment and decreases the bargaining power of … control for issues of self-selection and endogeneity in the firms' decisions to export by providing fixed effects and …

workforce sheds new light on the role of highly qualified employees for success on export markets that is not revealed by the …

of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm …'s innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey data which provides direct measures for innovations and firm … export and hence to catch up to the technological frontiers. This negative effect is amplified as financial constraints force …

subsidies on export activities we find no impact of subsidies on the probability to start exporting, and only weak evidence for …

There is data evidence that welfare has improved post democracy in Nigeria. However, the distribution or concentration …, across and within gender, post democracy in Nigeria is explored. I make use of simple econometric tools to test two null … in Nigeria. Second, there are no within gender disparities of the shift to democracy on income and returns to education …

these claims at the micro level. In this study, I focus on Nigeria a country that holds 1/5 of Africa’s population. I use … the changes in demand for education in Nigeria and the increased emigration rates from African countries that …