(Comtrade) database (through the World Bank's World Integrated Trade Solution, or WITS, software) and include imports and … region and income group, as defined by the World Bank. A separate data set provides bilateral trade flows (by partner) at the … Conference on Trade and Development and from the World Trade Organization's Trade Policy Reviews and Integrated Database …

productivity in Europe. The focus is on the reallocation channel and productivity-enhancing reallocation of jobs, following Foster … exploits variation in employment responsiveness to productivity over time, particularly examining the relationship between … firm productivity. Acknowledging limitations of a small set of countries covered and occasionally large confidence bounds …

Lockdowns imposed around the world to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic are having a differential impact on …

support aiming to curb the economic consequences of the coronavirus (COVID19) pandemic. The results, drawing on the experience …

We estimate the causal effects of a pandemic-era wage subsidy program in Canada on job losses and business closures … changes in the wage subsidy rate. The estimated net wage elasticity of employment was 0.11, implying a small aggregate … employment effect of the program and an estimated fiscal cost per job saved of nearly $200,000 per year. Subsidy payments caused …