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Ethnic Diversity and Firms' Export Behavior

Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Pozzoli, Dario; Sala, Davide - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Selling internationally requires products that resonate with an international customer base and therefore an approach to markets that is in keeping with diverse cultures (i.e., relational capital). As emphasized by international business studies, this relational capital is in turn related to the...

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Exporting and Labor Demand: Micro-Level Evidence from Germany

Lichter, Andreas; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

control for issues of self-selection and endogeneity in the firms' decisions to export by providing fixed effects and …

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Do Foreign Experts Increase the Productivity of Domestic Firms?

Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj; Munch, Jakob R.; Skaksen, Jan Rose - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

While most countries welcome (and some even subsidise) high-skilled immigrants, there is very limited evidence of their importance for domestic firms. To guide our empirical analysis, we first set up a simple theoretical model to show how foreign experts may impact on the productivity and wages...

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Why Ex(Im)porters Pay More: Evidence from Matched Firm-Worker Panels

Martins, Pedro S.; Opromolla, Luca David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

import as well as the export activity of the firm. These two innovations allow us to avoid large biases that characterized … recent theories that aim at explaining participation both in export and import markets and at including non …

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Average Wage, Qualification of the Workforce and Export Performance in German Enterprises: Evidence from KombiFiD Data

Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

workforce sheds new light on the role of highly qualified employees for success on export markets that is not revealed by the …

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Financial Constraints and Innovation: Why Poor Countries Don't Catch Up

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Schnitzer, Monika - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm …'s innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey data which provides direct measures for innovations and firm … export and hence to catch up to the technological frontiers. This negative effect is amplified as financial constraints force …

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Subsidies and Exports in Germany: First Evidence from Enterprise Panel Data

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

subsidies on export activities we find no impact of subsidies on the probability to start exporting, and only weak evidence for …

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The Consequences of Increased Enforcement of Legal Minimum Wages in a Developing Country: An Evaluation of the Impact of the Campaña Nacional de Salarios Mínimos in Costa Rica

Gindling, T. H.; Mossaad, Nadwa; Trejos, Juan Diego - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

In August 2010 the Costa Rican government implemented a comprehensive program to increase compliance with legal minimum wages, the Campaign for Minimum Wages. To evaluate the impact of the Campaign, we use a regression discontinuity approach, which compares what happened to workers who before...

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Unions, Wage Gaps, and Wage Dispersion: New Evidence from the Americas

Rios-Avila, Fernando; Hirsch, Barry - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Using a common methodology, the effects of unions on wage levels and wage dispersion are estimated for two neighboring countries, Bolivia and Chile, and for the U.S. The analysis shows that unions have broadly similar effects on the wage distribution within these three economies. The findings...

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Gender Differences in the Distribution of Total Work-Time of Latin-American Families: The Importance of Social Norms

Campaña, Juan Carlos; Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

We analyze differences by gender in the time dedicated to total work (paid and unpaid) by families in Latin America, with particular attention to the effect of social norms. To this end, we use survey data on time use in Mexico (2009), Peru (2010), Ecuador (2012) and Colombia (2012), to estimate...

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