productivity gains. In addition, as suggested in the literature, export product variety depends on trade costs, such as tariffs …, distance, and transport costs. Such trade cost variables are used as instruments to help the authors identify the effects of … productivity. This paper a product of the Trade Team, Development Research Group is part of a larger effort in the group to study …

System (HS), Standard International Trade Classification (SITC, Revisions 2 and 3), and Standard Industrial Classification …This paper describes data on U.S. exports from 1972-1994, classified according to the Schedule B' system, Harmonized … exports. U.S. Exports, 1972-1994,' which can be ordered for $50 from the Publications Department, NBER, 1050 Massachusetts …

considerable number of jobs. On balance over the entire 1991-2007 period, job gains due to changes in US global exports were …

We quantify the impact on U.S. employment from imports and exports during 1995-2011, using the World Input …-Output Database. We find that the growth in U.S. exports led to increased demand for 2 million jobs in manufacturing, 0.5 million in … jobs are due to the intermediate demand from merchandise (manufacturing and resource) exports, so the total labor demand …

gains coming from non-traded goods like construction. Exports grew much faster over the 2000-2005 period, which could in … gains than did exports over 2000-2005, while productivity growth subtracted the same amount again from employment. We … conclude that exports have become increasingly important in stimulating employment in China, but that the same gains could be …

is unchanged. A higher-quality foreign workforce raises the variety of contractual trade, but at the expense of generics …. We confirm these predictions using data for ordinary versus processing exports from Chinese provinces to destination …

year 2001, disaggregated by Harmonized System (HS), Standard International Trade Classification (SITC), and the U …This paper describes the updating of the NBER trade dataset, which now provides U.S. import and export values to the … years 1989-2001. Earlier CD-ROMs distributed by the NBER described data on U.S. imports and exports from 1972-1994, and …

fixed costs reduce exports on the extensive margin, but can be offset by collateral held by exporting firms. The empirical … reducing exports …