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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395506
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009293388
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008487848
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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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