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 …

of Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. Participation rates, educational levels and (with the exception of Hong … reallocations of labour, with (again, excepting Hong Kong) non-agricultural and manufacturing employment growing one and a half to … exports in the newly industrializing economies of East Asia is virtually unprecedented, the growth of total factor …

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

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 …

We examine the employment responses to import competition from China and to global export expansion from the United … considerable number of jobs. On balance over the entire 1991-2007 period, job gains due to changes in US global exports were …

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