We combine data on individual trade transactions from U.S. customs records with comprehensive information on firms … along a number of dimensions: they are smaller in terms of employment, trade value and domestic sales, operate fewer U … within the boundaries of the firm, on the other hand, are substantially larger. They trade more products, trade with more …

After fifty years of catching up to the United States level of productivity, since 1995 Europe has been falling behind … growth shortfall caused the level of European productivity to fall back from 94 percent of the United States level to 85 … United States is in ICT-using industries like wholesale and retail trade and in securities trading. The contrast in retailing …

-specific quotas following China's entry into the World Trade Organization. Chinese import competition had two effects: first, it led …

1950 by comparing workers in wholesale trade, a sector which was covered by the Act, with those in retail trade, a sector … employment in wholesale trade minimum wage provisions of the Act probably reduced it …

understanding of the role of worker heterogeneity and uncertainty about health and productivity shocks. Lastly, we review some of …