investigates how global value chain-related trade affects the export performance of manufacturing firms in South Africa. In … results confirm that global value chain-related trade is associated with a higher productivity premium compared with … traditional trade. However, within the categories of exporters, only the firms that trade in global value chain-related products …

international trade measured by value-added exports and imports. In this paper, the final demand approach is applied to measure … international trade by value-added exports and imports and they were computed based on inter-country input-output tables delivered …

trade. We develop a quantifiable trade model with two-sided firm heterogeneity, matching frictions, and oligopolistic …-ups. Counterfactual analysis indicates that entry upstream benefits high-productivity buyers, while lower matching or trade costs benefit … industrial and trade policies. …

. In choosing between these alternatives, they face a trade-off between higher variable distance costs when exporting and …

There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household … economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant …

We present, extend and estimate a model of international trade with firm heterogeneity in the tradition of Melitz (2003 … prices, productivity levels and markups as functions of openness to trade at a sectoral level. The theory lends itself … naturally to a difference in differences estimation, with international differences in trade openness at the sector level …

. In choosing between these alternatives, they face a trade-off between higher variable distance costs when exporting and …

There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household … economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant …

We present, extend and estimate a model of international trade with firm heterogeneity in the tradition of Melitz (2003 … prices, productivity levels and markups as functions of openness to trade at a sectoral level. The theory lends itself … naturally to a difference in differences estimation, with international differences in trade openness at the sector level …