Resumen de World Trade Evolution: Growth, Productivity, and Employment.

Thomas J. Prusa

• This edited volume contains 12 very fine papers examining how trade affects growth, productivity and employment. Ing, Yu and Zhang develop a procedure extending the work of Feenstra and Romalis to estimate micro-level firm-product-destination-year export quality. They combine firm-level production data with transaction-level export data in both Indonesia and China to estimate micro-level export quality. [Extracted from the article]