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 …

instance). This positive association is particularly important for the exports of differentiated products, suggesting that …

sophistication of a country's exports with the average income level of destination countries, we show that the performance of a … et al. (2007) as a point of departure, we suggest that it is not just the composition of exports but their destination …

disaggregated firm-level customs transaction data for imports and exports, the paper documents the progressive retreat of Argentine …

This paper studies how a positive export shock -- the sharp increase in garment-sector exports that began at the end of … paper shows that, following the increase in exports of the female-intensive good, the male-female wage gap closes …

-output relationships can lead to significant over- or underestimates of the effect of energy price shocks on exports, depending on … industry to support lower rates for households and farmers in India could reduce the country's net manufacturing exports by $6 … reduce European Union-wide net manufacturing exports by 1.9 percent annually …

Like many emerging economies, South Africa has identified exports as an engine for more inclusive, job-intensive growth … uses a newly developed World Bank database -- the Labor Content of Exports -- to show that the composition of South Africa …'s export growth helps to understand the weak relationship between export and employment growth. Minerals exports, which …

estimates connecting country-industry productivity and exports, and the study exploits heterogeneous technology diffusion from … advantages, and it establishes a connection of migration to home country exports beyond bilateral networks …