workforce sheds new light on the role of highly qualified employees for success on export markets that is not revealed by the …

This paper studies how a positive export shock - the sharp increase in garment-sector exports that began at the end of … exogenous to Bangladesh, we instrument export demand with OECD imports to ensure identification. We compare estimates of the …-run, general-equilibrium neoclassical trade theory. As in other studies, we find that the export shock was localized both in terms …

Export promotion policy is often employed by governments to spur economic growth. This paper uses Canadian linked … significantly three years after a plant enters export markets. Unlike the skill-upgrading mechanism for developing countries, the … most plausible explanation for the effect in Canada, a small developed country, is that more intense competition in export …