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Die vorliegende Studie zum Potenzial der BRICS-Staaten für die österreichische Außenwirtschaft diskutiert in einem ersten Schritt aktuelle makroökonomische Entwicklungen und strukturelle Aspekte der fünf BRICS-Staaten sowie die damit verbundenen Herausforderungen für die Zukunft. In einem...
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Für Österreich als kleine offene Volkswirtschaft ist die internationale Wettbewerbsfähigkeit seiner Un-ternehmen für den wirtschaftlichen Wohlstand entscheidend. Darüber hinaus prägen kleine und mittel-ständische Unternehmen (KMUs) die Struktur der heimischen Wirtschaft. Somit sind sie...
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This report considers the impact of offshoring on labour markets. The report begins by surveying the empirical literature linking offshoring activities to changes in employment and the relative wage and employment of high- to low-skilled workers. The report moves on to consider recent...
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Recent empirical studies have been searching for evidence on and driving forces for offshoring. Frequently, this has been done by analyzing gross trade flows related to offshore activities using gravity equations augmented by ad hoc measures of supply-side country differences. This paper...
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This paper analyzes the impact of Chinese competition on developed countries export prices, with a focus on Italy …. After a theoretical discussion of the channels affecting export prices in presence of competitors from low income countries … destination markets according to their income level. Results show that export competition from China has affected Italian price …
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In this paper I quantify the welfare gains of the 2004 EU enlargement as a result of the abolition of border controls, both for incumbents and for new members. I build a multi-sector Ricardian model, allowing for linkages across sectors, similar to the one in Caliendro and Parro (2011). As with...
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Die vorliegende Analyse der österreichischen Warenverkehrsbilanz diskutiert sowohl die zeitliche Entwicklung der Handelsbilanz und ihre zugrundeliegenden Faktoren als auch die bilateralen Bilanzen mit den wichtigsten Handelspartnern und die Handelsbilanz in ausgewählten Warengruppen. Mit...
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export values become less meaningful as part of this value is made of imported intermediates. As such, statistics and … Austria’s trade balance surplus. The strong export performance of Austria is also revealed by the rising share in total EU …
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export participation is very low and highly concentrated among a few firms and that service exporters are on average larger … and more productive than non-exporters. We also find that firm productivity increases with the number of export markets … served. The detailed analysis on the export premium suggests the self-selection of firms as well as learning effects from …
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of input market entails an efficiency improvement within firms able to import (gains from input switching) and an …
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