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Despite the fact that importing and exporting are extremely rare firm activities, economists generally devote little attention to the role of firms when discussing international trade. This paper summarizes key differences between trading and non-trading firms, demonstrates how these differences...
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new products and processes from their headquarters to Mexico. Finally, although Mexican detergent exports captured an …
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competition model that studies the effect of trade liberalization on exit and sectoral restructuring in the business services … sector. We assume that firms are heterogeneous in their marginal costs, allowing the model to predict domestic M&A and exit … by closedown, as well as foreign M&A. The model is brought to detailed French firm-level data on exit and M&A in the …
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The decision to exit is examined for a cohort of over 12,000 plants established in 1976. Using a longitudinal data base … more employees during the start -up year are found to have a lower likelihood of exit than do smaller plants. Similarly …, establishnwnts which are independent are found to have a lower likelihood of exit within the following years than do newly created …
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, in terms of survival, employment growth, wage growth, and export growth. We suggest that the green industry (as defined … characterized as a unique industry with substantial potential for employment growth, well-paying ‘green jobs,’ and export … differences between EPMs and their non-EPM counterparts in the same industry, in terms of employment, employee compensation …
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with employment growth across and within metropolitan areas, but the endogeneity of these measures bedevils interpretation … instrument for our entrepreneurship measures and find a persistent link between entrepreneurship and city employment growth; this … connection works primarily through lower employment growth of start-ups in cities that are closer to mines. These effects hold in …
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This paper investigates which strategies the major Italian aircraft producers adopted to cope with the collapse of the aircraft market (civilian and military) at the dawn of 1990's.
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This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then describe how these factors are frequently measured in the data and some resulting empirical regularities....
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Economists have often argued that "pay for performance" is the optimal compensation scheme. However, use of the simplest form of pay for performance, the piece rate, has been in decline in manufacturing in recent decades. We show both theoretically and empirically that these changes are due to...
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implies that previous work linking (revenue-based) productivity to survival has confounded the separate and opposing effects … of technical efficiency and demand on survival, understating the true impacts of both. We further show that young …
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