inequality and international migration. This paper explores the skill premium and its link to exports in Latin America, thus … are important in explaining skill premiums. The analysis also suggests that the incidence of exports within industries … underlying industry and country characteristics that explain skill premiums. In particular, higher sectoral exports are …

. Using the World Bank's Exporter Dynamics Database (EDD) featuring firm-level exports from 50 countries, we find that around … 50% of variation in exports is along the extensive margin --- a quantitative victory for the Melitz framework. The … remaining 50% on the intensive margin (exports per exporting firm) contradicts a special case of Melitz with Pareto …

present new comprehensive export measures for the middle colonies. We find that aggregate exports in constant prices grew very … to the role of exports as a stimulus for economic growth. Yet their analyses have been handicapped by reliance on one or … two time series to serve as indicators of broader changes rather than considering the export sector as a whole. Here we …

Japanese exports between 1880 and 1910 increased massively in volume, changed composition, and shifted away from … new disaggregated data set of the bilateral-product level exports for the universe of Japanese trade partners, we find … that changes in various extensive margins (new markets, new goods) account for over 30 percent of export growth over this …

This paper investigates the effect of export shocks on innovation. On the one hand a positive shock increases market … export market. This in turn reduces profits and therefore innovation incentives particularly for firms with low productivity …. Overall the positive impact of the export shock on innovation is magnified for high productivity firms, whereas it may …

or stifle innovation. Using three distinct sources of variation to identify rising trade exposure, we provide a causal …-level and technology class-level patent production. Accompanying this fall in innovation, global employment, sales …