This paper studies how a positive export shock - the sharp increase in garment-sector exports that began at the end of … estimates of the local labor market effects (wages and informality) and estimates from wage equations that reflect the … shock was localized both in terms of sector and geography. Wages increased and informality decreased in sub-districts more …

(Harmonized System 10- digit) bilateral exports to the United States. The patterns in the data are consistent with the theory. The …

in exports across trading partners should occur on the extensive margin. This paper subjects this theoretical prediction … to a reality check drawing upon the World Bank's Exporter Dynamics Database (EDD) which has firm-level exports from 50 … developing countries to all destinations. Around 50 percent of the variation in exports across trading partners is shown to be …

Evidence on the effect of exports on welfare at the local level is scarce. Using a unique data set of international … provides new evidence on the impact of a significant rise in exports on poverty and inequality at the local level. The analysis … implements an instrumental variable approach that combines the initial structure of exports across municipalities with global …