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This paper assesses the role of a larger degree of common language use between the populations of two countries on the so-called extensive product margin of trade. We focus on the overlap of products exported or imported between any pair of countries. The results suggest that the effect of...
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How does immigration affect export performance? To answer this question we propose a unified empirical framework …
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and production and become aware of how they fare relative to competitors and to their past export performance. To which … at the product level since 2005, to compute indicators of export performance stripped of compositional effects. The … resulting Export Competitiveness Database (ECD) reveals that emerging and developing regions, particularly the Asia and Pacific …
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How do immigrants promote exports? To answer this question we propose a unified empirical framework allowing to identify and disentangle the main mechanisms put forth in the literature: the role of networks in reducing bilateral transaction costs, and the productivity shifts arising from...
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evidence in favour of self-selection of more productive firms into export markets, but nearly no evidence in favour of the …
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to competitors and to their past export performance. Of particular importance is the extent to which their performance is … quarterly data for 2005q1-2013q1 to compute comparable indicators of export performance for 228 countries and territories. The … database, the Export Competitiveness Database, reveals interesting patterns in trade performance. Export performance, stripped …
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to competitors and to their past export performance. Of particular importance is the extent to which their performance is … quarterly data for 2005q1-2013q1 to compute comparable indicators of export performance for 228 countries and territories. The … database, the Export Competitiveness Database, reveals interesting patterns in trade performance. Export performance, stripped …
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We examine the effects of globalization on the size and composition of tax revenues, worker-specific tax burdens, and effective average labor income tax rates using a unique international database on income tax calculators. We find that due to increasing mobility of firms and high-income...
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