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The returns to schooling or the skill premium is a key parameter in various literatures, including globalization and inequality and international migration. This paper explores the skill premium and its link to exports in Latin America, thus linking the skill premium to the emerging literature...
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This paper examines whether export participation matters for job training. The paper draws on longitudinal worker … uses industry-specific exchange rate movements to generate exogenous variation in export status at the firm-level. The … findings indicate that export participation tends to increase the share of workers who receive technical upgrading. The results …
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The authors follow the Hellerstein, Neumark, and Troske (1999) framework to estimate marginal productivity differentials and compare them with estimated relative wages. The analysis provides evidence on productivity and nonproductivity-based determinations of wages. Special emphasis is given to...
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This paper documents an unusual and possibly significant phenomenon: The export of skills embodied in goods, services …
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This study examines whether foreign direct investment inflows facilitate upgrading of export quality in host countries … affiliates in the upstream (input-supplying) industries. This relationship is present irrespective of export destination or …
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. The instrumented elasticity of export growth on the intensive margin with respect to the exporter's productivity growth is …
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: (1) earning income (export goods in which Russia has traditionally had a comparative advantage); (2) diversification and …
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46 countries over the period 1996-2012, and first finds evidence that the elasticity of manufacturing export volumes to …
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to competitors and to their past export performance. Of particular importance is the extent to which their performance is … quarterly data for 2005q1-2013q1 to compute comparable indicators of export performance for 228 countries and territories. The … database, the Export Competitiveness Database, reveals interesting patterns in trade performance. Export performance, stripped …
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of export volumes as well as export surges, that is, the periods of rapid sustained export growth. It asks whether the … determinants of export growth rates and export surges differ between merchandise, traditional services, and modern services and … whether developing countries are different. It confirm the importance of the real exchange rate for export growth. The paper …
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