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Exporters differ considerably in terms of export-market participation over time and employment size. But this marked … experience at other exporters. We show that expected export status, predicted with current destination-country trade instruments … reduced market penetration at the firm losing the worker. This evidence is consistent with the hypothesis that expected export …
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direct investment by U.S. firms and the export trade of the United States, a subject of bitter controversy for at least the …
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surprisingly unstable: Export ranks are not persistent, and new top products and destinations replace old ones. Measurement error … of this instability: Only 20% of the variation in export growth can be explained by variation in comparative advantage … (source-by-product factors), while another 20% of the variation in export growth can be explained by variation in bilateral …
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tuberculosis drug samples that claim to be made in India and were sold in Africa, India, and five mid-income non-African countries … in India or non-African countries. Since this finding is robust for manufacturer-drug fixed effects, one likely … explanation is that Indian pharmaceutical firms and/or their export intermediaries do indeed differentiate drug quality according …
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can only export into markets in which they have a contact. They acquire new contacts both at random, and via their network …
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equivalent to nearly 30 years of industry productivity growth in its effect on iron and steel export prices. The results are …
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We study how international trade affects manufacturing employment and the relative wage of unskilled workers when goods and services are traded with different intensities. Manufacturing trade reduces manufacturing prices worldwide, which reduces manufacturing employment if manufactures and...
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Short run gravity is a geometric weighted average of long run gravity and bilateral capacity. The model features (i) joint trade costs endogenous to bilateral volumes, (ii) long run gravity as a limiting case of efficient investment in bilateral capacities, (iii) a structural ratio of short run...
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This Paper challenges two widely held views: first that trade performance has been the primary reason for the declining share of manufacturing employment in the United States and other industrial economies, and second that recent productivity growth in manufacturing has actually been quite rapid...
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the countries most exposed to the adverse consequences of China's export growth. Our results suggest that had China …'s export supply capacity been constant over the 1995-2005 period, demand for exports would have been 0.8% to 1.6% higher in the … 10 countries studied. Thus, even for the developing countries most specialized in export manufacturing, China's expansion …
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