This paper investigates the relationship between export market shares and relative unit labour costs using a long panel … of twelve manufacturing industries across fourteen OECD countries. We ask two questions: (a) how sensitive are export … embodied technology are important, we find that neither can fully explain changing export positions. We explore whether the …

In the years before the economic crisis, Portugal had low growth, a decline in export competitiveness and rising … imbalances that included a large current account deficit and a strong expansion of the non-tradable sector. Strengthening export … Portugal started an ambitious structural reform programme in 2011, but more needs to be done to build on the recent export …

international export performance at the firm level. To this end, we use Belgian firm-level data for the period 1999-2010 to analyze … significant negative effect of unit labor costs on export performance of firms with an estimated elasticity of the intensive … costs reduce the probability of starting to export for non-exporters and increase the probability of exporters stopping …

international export performance at the firm level. To this end, we use Belgian firm-level data for the period 1999-2010 to analyze … significant negative effect of unit labor costs on export performance of firms with an estimated elasticity of the intensive … costs reduce the probability of starting to export for non-exporters and increase the probability of exporters stopping …

international export performance at the firm level. To this end, we use Belgian firm-level data for the period 1999-2010 to analyze … significant negative effect of unit labor costs on export performance of firms with an estimated elasticity of the intensive … costs reduce the probability of starting to export for non-exporters and increase the probability of exporters stopping …

This paper investigates the nature and pattern of export specialization in Lithuania. The aim of this paper is to … estimate the nature and pattern of Lithuanian export specialization under existing conditions. Seeking to define the nature and … pattern of export specialization, the basic methods of export specialization measurement and the nature and pattern of export …

This paper analyses the structure of Greek exports and presents policy recommendations to boost export performance …. Despite recent improvements, export performance deteriorated in the last decade particularly in the service sector. The … has been sluggish due to severe liquidity constraints of exporters, lack of investment in export industries and in part …