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Dual Track Reforms: With and Without Losers

Che, Jiahua; Facchini, Giovanni - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2005

The dual track approach to market liberalization has been widely recognized as the key to the success of the Chinese economic reform. In this paper we study the effectiveness of this strategy in economic environments where the status quo government control is incomplete. We show that in a...

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Productivity, Quality and Export Behavior (Revised version of: Firm-Export Intensity and Productivity, September 2011)

Crinò, Rosario; Epifani, Paolo - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2009

We study, both theoretically and empirically, how export intensity (the ratio of exports to sales) is related to firm … strongly negatively correlated with export intensity to low-income destinations and uncorrelated with export intensity to high … plausible assumptions, our model predicts that the elasticity of export intensity to productivity is increasing in per capita …

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Does the Welfare State Affect Individual Attitudes towards Immigrants? Evidence Across Countries

Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2007

This paper analyzes welfare-state determinants of individual attitudes towards immigrants - within and across countries - and their interaction with labor-market drivers of preferences. We consider two different mechanisms through which a redistributive welfare system might adjust as a result of...

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Who is Against a Common Market?

Facchini, Giovanni; Testa, Cecilia - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2008

This paper develops a theory of the endogenous formation of a common market in a three-country, two-factor political economy model. In the status quo, Home and Foreign implement non-discriminatory policies towards international factor flows, as to maximize the domestic median voter\'s welfare....

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New Imported Inputs, New Domestic Products

Colantone, Italo; Crinò, Rosario - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2011

We study the effects of new imported inputs on the entry of new domestic products and their characteristics. To this purpose, we construct a novel, comprehensive and extremely detailed dataset, which contains product-level information on foreign trade and domestic production for 25 EU countries...

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Imported Inputs and Skill Upgrading

Crinò, Rosario - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2011

This paper studies the effect of imported inputs on relative skilled labor demand. To this purpose, it uses firm-level data for 27 transition countries and propensity score matching techniques. The results show that importing inputs induces skill upgrading: according to a conservative estimate,...

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Illegal Immigration and Media Exposure: Evidence on Individual Attitudes

Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria; Puglisi, Riccardo - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2009

Illegal immigration has been the focus of much debate in receiving countries, but little is known about what drives individual attitudes towards illegal immigrants. To study this question, we use the CCES survey, which was carried out in 2006 in the United States. We find evidence that - in...

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Employment Effects of Service Offshoring: Evidence from Matched Firms

Crinò, Rosario - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2009

This paper studies the e¤ects of service o¤shoring on the level and skill composition of domestic employment, using a rich data set of Italian rms and propensity score matching techniques. The results show that service o¤shoring has no e¤ect on the level of employment but changes its...

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Export Growth and Firm Survival

Namini, Julian Emami; Facchini, Giovanni; López, Ricardo A. - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2013

This paper uses plant–level data from Chile to show that an increase in sector–wide exports decreases the survival probability of exporters, but not that of non–exporters. We argue that this result can be explained by the fact that exporters and non-exporters use factors of production in...

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Export Growth and Factor Market Competition: Theory and Evidence

Namini, Julian Emami; Facchini, Giovanni; Lopez, Ricardo A. - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2011

Empirical evidence suggests that sectoral export growth decreases exporters\' survival probability, whereas non … develop a two-factor framework where firms differ in factor shares. In this model, export growth increases competition for the …

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