We examine the employment responses to import competition from China and to global export expansion from the United …, at both the industry level and the local commuting zone level, the global export expansion of US products also creates a … import and export exposure is roughly balanced at the commuting zone level …

about 30% of that coming from export growth. In fact, total employment increased by 7.5-8 million per year over 1997 …-2005. We estimate that export growth over 1997-2002 contributed at most 2.5 million jobs per year, with most of the employment …

sectoral export variety on country productivity. The effects are estimated in a translog GDP function system based on data for … 34 countries from 1982 to 1997. Country productivity is constructed and export variety is shown to be significant …. Instruments such as tariffs, transport costs, and distance are shown to affect country productivity through export variety, and …

This paper describes the updating of the NBER trade dataset, which now provides U.S. import and export values to the …

-best production. The longer time needed for export shipments induces a tighter credit constraint on exporters than on purely domestic …