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 …

exports may not be a random process. The results confirm the self-selection hypothesis and show that starting to export yields … productivity, which reinforces the importance of accounting for firm export status to study the evolution of productivity …

This note examines in detail Brazil?s export performance over the past 15 years, focusing not only on growth and …

violence. The phenomenon is observed in many countries, including in Brazil, despite its robust legal framework to prevent and …

analysis based on Brazil's historical data over the period 1970-2006 confirm that the manufacturing sector benefits the most in …

household labor income and poverty in Brazil. The authors first estimate the extent of price transmission from world markets to …

The seven largest emerging market economies -- China, India, Brazil, Russia, Mexico, Indonesia, and Turkey …

This paper is a study of the effect of Brazil's staggered Internet rollout between 2000 and 2014 on municipality … employment and wages. The study uses a new, annual data set on Internet availability from the Brazil school census, with the … Internet connections. These data are combined with Brazil's rich, matched employer-employee survey, which contains annual …

development quest. The sample includes Brazil, India, Vietnam and four African countries -- Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, and Zambia … "fundamentals" challenges in growth. Out of the seven countries, the traditional path to rapid growth of export oriented …