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Trade Liberalization and Employment in the Moroccan Manufacturing Sector

ACHY, Lahcen; SEKKAT, Khalid - EconWPA - 2005

This paper uses firm level data to investigate the impact of trade liberalization on manufacturing sector employment in Morocco. This paper extends the existing research in various dimensions. First, it analyses the effect of trade openness on different skill levels of the manufacturing labor...

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Manufacturing Restructuring and the Role of Real Exchange Rate Shocks

Ekholm, Karolina; Moxnes, Andreas; Ulltveit-Moe, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

orientation. A change in the real exchange rate (RER) affects a firm through three different channels: (i) firm's export sales …

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Trade, Poverty and Employment: The Social Consequences of Integration with China

Castro, Lucio; Saslavsky, Daniel - EconWPA - 2005

This paper estimates the potential effects of a free trade agreement (FTA) between China and Mercosur on poverty, income distribution, welfare and employment. The case of Argentina, in particular, is investigated. To this end, partial equilibrium techniques are combined with micro econometric...

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Tango with the Dragon: Employment Effects of Trade Integration with China. The Case of Argentina

Castro, Lucio - EconWPA - 2005

This paper estimates the effects of trade integration between China and Mercosur on employment. The case of Argentina, in particular, is investigated. Highly disaggregated data at the industry level is used for the first time to estimate labor demand elasticities in order to estimate the effects...

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Exports, Foreign Direct Investment, and Productivity: Evidence from German Firm Level Data

Wagner, Joachim - EconWPA - 2005

This paper presents the first empirical test with German establishment level data of a hypothesis derived by Helpman, Melitz and Yeaple in a model that explains the decision of heterogeneous firms to serve foreign markets either trough exports or foreign direct investment: only the more...

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Export Behavior and Firm Productivity in German Manufacturing: A firm-level analysis

Arnold, Jens Matthias; Hussinger, Katrin - EconWPA - 2004

This paper analyses the relationship between firm productivity and export behavior in German manufacturing firms. We …-productivity firms self-select themselves into export markets, while exporting itself does not play a significant role for productivity …

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Two-sided Heterogeneity and Trade

Bernard, Andrew B.; Moxnes, Andreas; Ulltveit-Moe, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Empirical studies of firms within industries consistently report substantial heterogeneity in measures of performance such as size and productivity. This paper explores the consequences of joint heterogeneity on the supply side (sellers) and the demand side (buyers) in international trade using...

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Exporter Dynamics, Firm Size and Growth, and Partial Year Effects

Bernard, Andrew B.; Massari, Renzo; Reyes, Jose-Daniel; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

entry and the following year. This paper examines the implications of partial year effects using Peruvian export data. The … literatures on firm export dynamics. Correcting the partial year effect eliminates unusually high growth rates in the first year … of exporting, raises initial export levels, and shifts 10 percent of market entrants from below to above the median size …

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