minimum wages and productivity on firms' exports. It shows that the influence of minimum wages on firms' exporting probability … and foreign sales is negative while that of firms' productivity on their exports is positive. Econometric analysis based … 2007 verifies these predictions. Holding the other variables constant, if minimum wages and their productivity increase by …

The paper tests the role of agglomeration effects on the export decision of services firms. Recent theories on trade … with heterogeneous firms predict that export participation goes along with sunk market-entry costs. Only the more …-city areas. Standard empirical tests of the new trade models consistently find productivity-based ex ante self selection by …

aggressive export policies of Northern Europe via their low wage policies. (6b) Given the similarity of the tax policies in the …

This paper, for the 2008 World Export Development Forum, considers the emerging importance of standards and offers a …

This paper examines the relationship between export diversification and economic growth in Malaysia. We use annual data … four variables. Consistent with previous studies, we found that export diversification plays significant roles to economic … multilateral and regional trade liberalization, Malaysia should diversify its export commodities and develop greater social and …