India in the mid-1990s and manufacturing firms’ export performance. The empirical analysis relies on exogenous indicators of … regulation of Indian services sectors and detailed firm-level data from India in the 1994–2004 period. I find that the reform of … upstream services sector has increased the probability of exporting and export sales shares of firms producing in downstream …

We examine the effects of trade and services liberalization on wage inequality in India. We find that labor …

productivity growth. Growth is expected to rise from 2¼ percent in 2005 to about 3½ percent in the medium term, although this … will require continued strong growth in productivity. …

A new dataset on export sophistication reveals that in many countries the importance of modern services, and the …

used determinants of total factor productivity, a measure of the effect of labor reallocation and an index of economic … suggest that growth will depend, to a large extent, on educational investments and productivity gains in agriculture. …

productivity in Canada. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and its predecessor, the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement … productivity of Canadian industries, the persistence of structural differences between the two countries has prevented convergence … of aggregate labor productivity. While these findings seem to weigh against moving toward a monetary union, they also …