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This paper investigates how the fraction of exporting firms among domestic firms in a country differs across industries, depending on a country’s comparative advantage. A model, which extends work by Melitz (2003) and Bernard, Redding and Schott (2007), describes an economy that comprises two...
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In a Ricardian model with general distributions of industry efficiencies, the welfare gains from trade can be decomposed into a selection and a reallocation effect. The former is the change in average efficiency due to the selection of industries that survive international competition. The...
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Do firms in developing countries shift trade towards developed economies as a result of high economic growth? The matched customs-manufacturing firm data used in this study confront this hypothesized link with empirical evidence. Our analysis reveals a rising low-income country trade share...
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Do firms in developing countries shift trade towards developed economies as a result of high economic growth? The matched customs-manufacturing firm data used in this study confront this hypothesized link with empirical evidence. Our analysis reveals a rising low-income country trade share...
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This paper uses firm-level data on manufacturing trade from 40 developing countries to explore how the five largest exporters in a country contribute to export growth and diversification. The origins of these firms are also studied. The data show that the top five exporters account for on...
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This paper studies the effect of firms'export activity on the gender wage gap among its workers. Using matched employer-employee data from Germany for the period be- tween 1993 and 2007, we show that an increase in a firm's export widens the wage gap between male and female blue-collar workers,...
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