role in aggregate productivity gains immediately following the start of India's trade reforms in 1991. However, aggregate … productivity growth, while the older literature focused on average productivity improvements ("learning"). We use comprehensive …, firm-level data from India's organized manufacturing sector to show that market-share reallocations did play an important …

-level data from India, we find a positive spillover from manufacturing growth to gross value added, wages, employment, and worker … productivity in services, especially large urban firms and in service sectors whose output is used as a manufacturing input …

We use plant output and input prices to decompose the profit margin into four parts: productivity, demand shocks, mark … the impact of productivity, and other market fundamentals, on plant exit. A dynamic simulation that compares the … distribution of productivity with and without the trade reform shows that improvements in market selection from trade reform help …

export entry. I estimate my model on standard firm-level data and find substantial additional productivity gains from …Learning by exporting refers to the mechanism whereby firms improve their performance (productivity) after entering … export markets. Although this mechanism is often mentioned in policy documents, a significant share of econometric studies …

significant increase in services imports (2002-2012). We use world service export supply shocks, which we allocate to firms based …

China and India have been particularly strong. Then workers in occupations that are exposed to inshoring and offshore …We examine the impact on U.S. labor markets of offshore outsourcing in services to China and India. We also consider … China and India. Using March-to-March matched CPS data for 1996-2006 we examine the impacts on (1) occupation and industry …

volumes. Export intermediaries such as wholesalers serve different markets and export different products than manufacturing … environment and product-specific factors play important roles in explaining the existence of export intermediaries. These … export intermediaries to overcome country and product fixed costs means that they can more easily respond along the extensive …