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Export market performance of OECD countries : an empirical examination of the role of cost competitiveness
Carlin, Wendy; Glyn, Andrew; Van Reenen, John - 1999 - This version: 29.6.99
This paper investigates the relationship between export market shares and relative unit labour costs using a long panel … of twelve manufacturing industries across fourteen OECD countries. We ask two questions: (a) how sensitive are export … embodied technology are important, we find that neither can fully explain changing export positions. We explore whether the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011537525
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Trade Labor, Market Rigidities, and Government-Financed Technological Change
Koeniger, Winfried - 2001
This paper contributes to the debate on the effects of trade versus technological change on wage differentials. We propose an explanation of the stylized facts which is based on interactions between openness and technological change because of labor market institutions and government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262449
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Trade labor, market rigidities, and government-financed technological change
Koeniger, Winfried - 2001
This paper contributes to the debate on the effects of trade versus technological change on wage differentials. We propose an explanation of the stylized facts which is based on interactions between openness and technological change because of labor market institutions and government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339677
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Export market performance of OECD countries : an empirical examination of the role of cost competitiveness
Carlin, Wendy; Glyn, Andrew; Van Reenen, John - 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001414695
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How do exporters react to changes in cost competitiveness?
Decramer, Stefaan; Fuss, Catherine; Konings, Jozef - 2015
international export performance at the firm level. To this end, we use Belgian firm-level data for the period 1999-2010 to analyze … significant negative effect of unit labor costs on export performance of firms with an estimated elasticity of the intensive … costs reduce the probability of starting to export for non-exporters and increase the probability of exporters stopping …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011506796
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How do Exporters React to Changes in Cost Competitiveness?
Decramer, Stefaan - 2014
international export performance at the firm level. To this end, we use Belgian firm-level data for the period 1999-2010 to analyze … significant negative effect of unit labor costs on export performance of firms with an estimated elasticity of the intensive … costs reduce the probability of starting to export for non-exporters and increase the probability of exporters stopping …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013040611
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How do exporters react to changes in cost competitiveness?
Decramer, Stefaan; Fuss, Catherine; Konings, Jozef - 2015
international export performance at the firm level. To this end, we use Belgian firm-level data for the period 1999-2010 to analyze … significant negative effect of unit labor costs on export performance of firms with an estimated elasticity of the intensive … costs reduce the probability of starting to export for non-exporters and increase the probability of exporters stopping …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011587739
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Estimation of export specialization : Lithuanian case
Bernatonyte, Dalia - 2014
This paper investigates the nature and pattern of export specialization in Lithuania. The aim of this paper is to … estimate the nature and pattern of Lithuanian export specialization under existing conditions. Seeking to define the nature and … pattern of export specialization, the basic methods of export specialization measurement and the nature and pattern of export …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012011085
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Oligopoly and outsourcing
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu (contributor);  … - 2005
oligopolistic export sector and a competitive import-competing sector. When there is a minimum wage, an outsourcing tax might be … desirable and the usual profit-shifting objectives of an export subsidy are mitigated, perhaps completely, because it might lead … outsourcing. Further, if export subsidies are not possible due to WTO regulations, it is optimal to subsidize rather than to tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003227215
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Unit labour costs in the new EU member states
Havlik, Peter - 2005
Unit labour costs (ULCs) are one of the key economic variables considered in the context of globalization, competitiveness and production-location decisions. With the EU accession of eight Central and East European countries and their (almost) full inclusion in the European Single Market, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012153026