potential exposure of an industry's revenues and costs to world events through exports, imports, and imported inputs. For each … role of imports in domestic consumption, and the costs of imported inputs in total production. In addition, they construct … cost factor) can potentially offset exposure to the international economy through exports (a revenue factor). …

U.S. imports of manufactured goods increased rapidly between 1975 and 1985. During the same period, real wages of U ….S. manufacturing workers stagnated. The author investigates whether the increased competition from imports affected earnings within …

Superseded by Working Paper 12-20 ; The authors study the rise in U.S. manufacturing exports from 1987 to 2002 through … the model to calculate the predicted increase in trade. Contrary to the findings in Yi (2003), they find that the exports …

whether reform improves performance across various dimensions. Both manufactured and total exports display greater real …

: resources, rural, manufactures and services. While exports of bulk commodities and liquefied natural gas (LNG) grew strongly in … for Australia’s exports of food products, high-skilled manufactures and services is also expected to rise. …Growth in Australian exports was weaker than had been expected over the past 10 years across all major categories …

services are still much larger than for manufactures. Based on standard elasticities of substitution used in the literature … than for manufactures. …