This paper establishes a link between the income level of the destination countries and the level of average wages in the exporting country across the world economy. We use cross-country panel data to set up an instrumental ...

Literature contends that the manufacturing sector is crucial for economic development, and it is conventional wisdom that exports drive manufacturing growth. However, it has not yet been established empirically whether the ...

In this work we analyse the effect of export destinations on Total Factor Productivity (TFP) of manufacturing Uruguayan firms for the period 1997-2006. We study two effects: self-selection and learning by exporting. To ...

In Latin America and the Caribbean, there is little direct evidence on export innovation of small and medium-sized enterprises in (SMEs). This type of innovation refers to the adaptation of products and business processes ...

This papers studies the selection of carrier and destination port for Chilean fruit exporters. This double selection is analyzed as a stochastic choice process with time and space interactions. A space-time error structure ...

Productive and technological capabilities are major engines of export. But how they affect export behaviour at the microeconomic level is less clear and many questions remain. This paper empirically investigates their role ...