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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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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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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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Trade, Technology, and Productivity: A Study of Brazilian Manufacturers, 1986-1998

Muendler, Marc-Andreas - CESifo - 2004

Brazil's trade liberalization between 1990 and 1993, and its partial reversal in 1995, are used to study how reduced inward trade barriers affect productivity. The production function of Brazilian manufacturers is estimated at the ISIC3 two-digit level under various alternatives, including an...

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Labor Reallocation in Response to Trade Reform

Filho, Naércio Aquino Menezes; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - CESifo - 2007

comparative-advantage industries and at exporters. These findings are robust to instrumenting trade barriers and export status … with product demand at Brazil's export destinations and real exchange rate components. Worker effects are important …

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The Extensive Margin of Exporting Products: A Firm-level Analysis

Arkolakis, Costas; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - CESifo - 2010

export their highest-sales products across multiple destinations. To account for these regularities, we develop a model of …

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Trade and Tasks: An Exploration over Three Decades in Germany

Becker, Sascha O.; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - CESifo - 2014

This paper combines representative worker-level data that cover time-varying job-level task characteristics of an economy over a long time span with sector-level bilateral trade data for merchandize and services. We carefully create longitudinally consistent workplace characteristics from the...

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