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In the trade-technology-wage debate, the effects of the various forms of technical progress on relative factor prices …, which allows for any discrete number of sectors and countries integrated via trade flows. Technologies are country- and …
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In this study we provide detailed evidence on the importance and performance of exporters compared to non-exporters in Austrian manufacturing, based on firm level data. The results are in line with those found in other studies pointing towards the exceptional role of exporting firms with respect...
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In the trade-technology-wage debate, the effects of the various forms of technical progress on relative factor prices … allows for any discrete number of sectors and countries integrated via trade flows. Technologies are country- and sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099864
In this paper we examine the link between international outsourcing – or offshoring – and the skill structure of labour demand for a sample of 40 countries over the period 1995 2009. The paper uses data from the recently compiled World-Input-Output-Database (WIOD) to estimate a system of...
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There has been an ongoing trend towards increasing internationalisation of production over the past two decades or so. This implies that countries become more dependent on demand from foreign countries but also that countries and industries are able to source intermediates from different...
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Several years after the global slump, the construction industry and many countries and sectors with construction-related activities and firms tied to them still feel the impact of that financial and economic crisis. In contrast, several years prior to the crisis, there had been a major...
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The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the role of trade in productivity growth in a sample of 30 sectors in 25 EU … industries and only to a lower extent result from a shift towards higher productivity activities. Trade is found to be an … associated with efficiency gains, but intermediate good exchange and trade with New Member States exert a particularly strong …
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The paper presents the dynamics of trade diversity with respect to stages of development in the European context. The … (Imbs and Wacziarg, 2003), EU27 countries are characterized by high degree of trade diversity (on average, EU27 countries … of them registered a reconcentration of trade structures. Obtained estimation results confirm positive relationship …
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to European and global samples of countries. It analyzes both the commodity structure of Polish trade and the …
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This paper contributes to trade diversification literature by comparing changes in relative (i.e. assessed in … highly disaggregated trade statistics (4963 product lines) for 163 countries (1988-2010) and find that, despite differences …
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