observations on most businesses located in California. The evidence indicates that enterprise zones do not increase employment. We … also find no shift of employment toward the lower-wage workers targeted by enterprise zone incentives. We conclude that the …

new disaggregated data set of the bilateral-product level exports for the universe of Japanese trade partners, we find …Japanese exports between 1880 and 1910 increased massively in volume, changed composition, and shifted away from … period. Determinants of initial entry include trade costs and market size. Products started in a small number of markets and …

supply side at center stage, affording little or no role for demand or overseas trade. Recently, alternative explanations … have placed an emphasis on the importance of trade with New World colonies, and the expanded supply of raw cotton it … for 1760 and 1850. Neither claim is supported. Trade was vital for the progress of the industrial revolution; but it was …

the WTO, its exports and export participation would have been 30 and 37 percent lower respectively …

This research explores the effect of industrialization on the process of development. In contrast to conventional … steam engines across French departments during the early phases of industrialization, the research establishes that … intensive industrialization in the middle of the 19th century increased income per capita in the subsequent decades but …

new technological paradigm, which delayed their industrialization and, hence, their take-off to a state of sustained … development in the agricultural stage but has had a negative impact on income per capita in the course of industrialization; and … economic development in the process of industrialization …

mattered as well. A falling terms of trade raised the relative price of manufactures in domestic markets, as did real exchange …

, experienced higher innovation and yields in agriculture, a 'rise of the Gentry', and eventually higher levels of industrialization …

of early British industrialization supports the thesis that economic advances depend on specialized scientific training … British industrialization, by assessing the backgrounds, education and inventive activity of the major contributors to …