about 30% of that coming from export growth. In fact, total employment increased by 7.5-8 million per year over 1997 …-2005. We estimate that export growth over 1997-2002 contributed at most 2.5 million jobs per year, with most of the employment …

sectoral export variety on country productivity. The effects are estimated in a translog GDP function system based on data for … 34 countries from 1982 to 1997. Country productivity is constructed and export variety is shown to be significant …. Instruments such as tariffs, transport costs, and distance are shown to affect country productivity through export variety, and …

This paper describes the updating of the NBER trade dataset, which now provides U.S. import and export values to the …

This paper presents a dynamic model of the export decision by a profit-maximizing firm. Using a panel of U … government export promotion expenditures. Entry and exit in the export market by U.S. plants is substantial, past exporters are … apt to reenter, and plants are likely to export in consecutive years. However, we find that entry costs are significant …

manufacturing sector. This paper examines the source of this export boom and argues that the boom itself has been less remarkable … for the rate of growth of exports than for the striking increase in export intensity. This increase in export intensity … income are the dominant sources for the export increase, while productivity increases in U.S. plants play a relatively small …