In the early 1990s, trade and labor economists, noting the fall in wages for low-skilled workers relative to high …-skilled workers, began to debate the impact of trade on wages. This debate—which led to a sometimes heated exchange on the role of … trade versus the role of technological change in explaining wage movements—continues today, with the focus now shifting to …

trade and the ability to trade in differentiated goods that rely on contract enforcement. This paper takes advantage of … domestic exporters and processing versus ordinary trade, to show that institutional quality is a significant factor in … determining Chinese provincial export patterns. Institutions matter more for processing trade and more for foreign firms, just as …

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 …