This study explores the impact of export shocks on firms and re-aggregates results to derive distributional effects on … outcome variables – labour productivity, employment and wages. In a second step, an illustrative set of changes in trading … relationships generate sectoral export shocks, which are simulated with the OECD METRO model of trade and subsequently fed into …

between education institutions and employment, iii) providing training opportunities during working life, and iv) making …

This paper analyses the structure of Greek exports and presents policy recommendations to boost export performance …. Despite recent improvements, export performance deteriorated in the last decade particularly in the service sector. The … has been sluggish due to severe liquidity constraints of exporters, lack of investment in export industries and in part …

Portugal’s export performance over the past decade has been impressive, helping to reduce external imbalances. This … partly owed to a sequence of structural reforms that benefited the productivity of the export sector and led to an increase … competition-enhancing reforms to the port sector. To further differentiate and improve Portuguese export products, skills in the …

This paper investigates the effect of export entry on productivity, employment and wages of Latvian and Estonian firms … that are originally more productive and have better performances are more likely to enter export, Latvian and Estonian … firms also realise more than 23% and 14% higher labour productivity level as the result of export entry. Export entry also …

In the years before the economic crisis, Portugal had low growth, a decline in export competitiveness and rising … imbalances that included a large current account deficit and a strong expansion of the non-tradable sector. Strengthening export … Portugal started an ambitious structural reform programme in 2011, but more needs to be done to build on the recent export …

Portuguese export growth over the 1995-2016 period. The results highlight that there was no one single factor behind the export … explained by other factors. These include increases in the quality of export products and weak domestic demand that prompted … the Portuguese financial sector and its further development is beneficial for export growth. …

. Its remarkable economic performance over the past 15 years has not been sufficiently backed by gains in export market … adjustment process towards a more export-oriented economy operating on a level playing field needs to be flanked by dedicated …

market outcomes. There has been no progress in shrinking the gender employment gap since 2009, and women, particularly … the age of eligibility for public pensions to life expectancy would boost growth by increasing employment of older … labour market spending have the potential to increase employment. …