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State Export Promotion and Firm-level Employment

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  • Andrew J. Cassey
  • Spencer Cohen

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Most US states have export promotion programs, but it is unknown if these programs create long-term employment, which is often the policy’s stated goal. We merge administrative export promotion and employment data from Washington State to test the effect of firm-level export promotion on firm-level employment using the differences-in-differences estimator. We believe we are the first to have US state data at this level of detail. We find firm participation in an export assistance program increases firm-level employment fleetingly, but not in subsequent periods. Thus, we do not find a statistically significant impact to long-term employment from program participation.

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  • Andrew J. Cassey & Spencer Cohen, 2017. "State Export Promotion and Firm-level Employment," Public Finance Review, , vol. 45(4), pages 538-563, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:pubfin:v:45:y:2017:i:4:p:538-563
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    1. Srhoj, Stjepan & Vitezic, Vanja & Wagner, Joachim, 2020. "Export boosting policies and firm behaviour: Review of empirical evidence around the world," MPRA Paper 104330, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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