both developed and developing countries. In both country groups, comparative advantage has become weaker: productivity grew …

How does a country's productivity growth a¤ect worldwide real incomes through international trade? In this paper, we … take this classic question to the data by measuring the spillover e¤ects of China's productivity growth. Our framework … the spillover e¤ects of China's productivity growth are small causing the real incomes of China's trading partners to …

and productivity. A model with monopolistic competition, a continuum-of-goods, and endogenous tradability allows for … theory and history to be consistent for a wide range of underlying productivity shocks …

unanticipated and large, they are a plausible instrument for identifying the impact of exporting on firm productivity and other … that export growth leads to increases firm productivity and other firm performance measures. Consistent with quot …;earning-by-exportingquot;, the productivity impact of export growth is greater when firms export to more developed countries …

channels. First, trade raises productivity levels because producers gain access to new imported varieties. Second, increases in … that aggregates these micro gains to obtain an estimate of trade on productivity growth for each country. We find that in … the typical country in the world, new imported varieties account for 15 percent of its productivity growth. These effects …

Economists emphasize two channels through which import liberalization affects productivity, one operating between and … to 2002. First, in the long run, import liberalization lowers productivity in domestic industries through selection. This …, liberalization also generates technological learning that can on net raise domestic productivity. Third, for short time horizons of …

of the labor force engaged in agriculture. This decline has been accompanied by a systematic increase in the productivity … of the labor force, as it has moved from low productivity agriculture to higher productivity manufacturing and services …

. Sectors are populated by final-good producers who differ in productivity levels. Based on productivity and sectoral … different productivity levels choose different ownership structures and supplier locations, i.e., they choose different …