-series variation in aggregate exports is mostly accounted for by the intensive margin of trade, and in particular by the growth of …

quantitative finding is that a reduction in trade costs triggers much larger responses in growth rates and exit rates, for young …

This paper examines how unionization affects economic growth through its impact on industry concentration in a two …-country model of international trade and endogenous productivity growth. Knowledge spillovers link firm-level productivity in … rate of output growth when labor unions are employment-oriented, but decreases the rate of growth when unions are wage …

innovation on firm survival and firm productivity, which constitute the two main channels through which innovation drives growth …

unity. Furthermore, the model (iv) supports either a neoclassical steady-state or long-run endogenous growth, giving it the …

I use U.S. manufacturing industry data to estimate a system of three equations implied by a model of R&D-induced growth … technological progress to economic growth. In each case, I find evidence of positive impact. Thus, I reject the null hypothesis that … growth is not induced by R&D in favor of the Schumpeterian endogenous growth framework without scale effects. I also find …

groups (relative to non-exporters). Wage inequality within exporters is not driven by exporting but rather by characteristics …