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 …

-paid over-the-road tractor-trailer drivers ("road drivers") employed by US for-hire trucking companies, before and after …

-centers, trucking, and high-tech (software). Referred workers are 10-30% less likely to quit and have substantially higher performance …

Using recent data from southern California and Mexico we challenge the notion that the demographic profile of post-1970 … educational attainment, (5) are increasingly likely to originate in southern Mexico and the Mexico City Metropolitan area, and (6 …) are increasingly likely to depart from urban areas within Mexico. Although we find no direct evidence that the …

the United States and Canada are compared. These countries’ immigration flows have large differences in source countries …, scale and timing, and Canada has a much larger policy emphasis on skilled workers. Following from these, the educational … attainment of US immigrants is currently lower than that in Canada and the intergenerational transmission of education is …

that have relatively similar backgrounds and tax systems: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. The first … with an increase in the share of the top percentile group. Likewise, a fall in the marginal tax rate on investment income …

and Canada addresses three questions. First, is there something to explain? We suggest that the existing literature finds … representative household surveys we find that the configuration of all three sources of investment and support for children differs …

North American Trade Agreement (NAFTA). In all industries, an overwhelming share of aggregate productivity growth is … accounted for by a small number of plants which were larger and more productive before the implementation of NAFTA and expanded … and became more productive following the implementation of NAFTA. Plants that exported before NAFTA and export …

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