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In the years before the economic crisis, Portugal had low growth, a decline in export competitiveness and rising … imbalances that included a large current account deficit and a strong expansion of the non-tradable sector. Strengthening export … Portugal started an ambitious structural reform programme in 2011, but more needs to be done to build on the recent export …
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This paper analyses the structure of Greek exports and presents policy recommendations to boost export performance …. Despite recent improvements, export performance deteriorated in the last decade particularly in the service sector. The … has been sluggish due to severe liquidity constraints of exporters, lack of investment in export industries and in part …
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This paper examines how import penetration affects firms' productivity growth taking into account the heterogeneity in firms' distance to the efficiency frontier and country differences in product market regulation. Using firm-level data for a large number of OECD countries, the analysis reveals...
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How does the formation of cross-country teams affect the organization of work and the structure of wages? To study this question we propose a theory of the assignment of heterogeneous agents into hierarchical teams, where less skilled agents specialize in production and more skilled agents...
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Using industry-level data disaggregated by states, this paper finds a positive impact of trade liberalization on labor-demand elasticities in the Indian manufacturing sector. These elasticities turn out to be negatively related to protection levels that vary across industries and over time....
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to serve the export market while less skill-intensive non-exporters retrench in the face of increased import competition …
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countries export fundamentally different products, especially those classified as high tech. Judged by export shares, the United … products. Export unit values of developed and developing countries of primary commodity-intensive products are typically quite …
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The close connection between US and China in scientific research and education in the 2000s produced a large group of China-born researchers who work in the US ("diaspora") and a larger group of China-born researchers who gained US-research experience and returned to do their research in China...
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Why do firms decide to offshore certain parts of their production process? What qualifies certain countries as particularly attractive locations to offshore? In this paper we address these questions with a theory of international production hierarchies in which organizations arise endogenously...
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