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It is widely believed that globalization affects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To provide evidence for this, we analyze the effect of firms’ exporting behavior on the elasticity of labor demand. Using rich, German administrative linked employer-employee panel...
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between export and FDI. The model combines the proximity-concentration trade-off framework with the real option methodology …
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Germany’s export market share increased since 2000, while most industrial countries experienced declines. This study …-shoring). An export model is estimated covering the period 1993–2005. The dominant factor explaining the increase in market share … are trade relationships with fast growing countries. Regionalized production in the export sector also played a part …
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exogenous to firms’ export performance. We find that innovation attributable to this variation leads to an increase of roughly 7 … percentage points in the export share of German manufacturing firms. The evidence is robust to several alternative specifications …
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, those with intermediate productivity will export, and those with higher productivity will choose fragmentation. Among the …
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This paper decomposes the growth of China’s export into three parts: growth in the extensive margin, increased quantity … and increased prices; we perform a series of empirical analyses using China’s export data at HS-6 digit to analyze the … characteristics of China’s export growth. From 1995 to 2010, China’s export growth was mainly driven by quantity growth with a …
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endogenous, the LNG export benefit can drop by as much as 20-50% relative to the case of exogenous cost. …
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We examine Chinese-US trade flows over the 1994-2012 period, and find that, in line with the conventional wisdom, the value of China’s exports to the US responds negatively to real renminbi (RMB) appreciation, while import responds positively. Further, the combined empirical price effects on...
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In a global context foreign direct investment (FDI) and migration substitute one another in the matching process between workers and firms. However, as labor flows can lead to the formation of business networks, migration can actually facilitate FDI in the long-run. We first present a stylized...
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This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective, in which firms’ job offer and workers’ job acceptance decisions are disentangled. Minimum wages reduce job offer incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show...
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