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The Impact of Immigration on International Trade: A Meta-Analysis

Genc, Murat; Gheasi, Masood; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

distribution of immigration elasticities of imports and exports across 48 studies that yielded 300 observations. The results show … on trade. The migrant elasticity of imports is larger than that of exports in about half the countries considered, but … the publication bias and heterogeneity-corrected elasticity is slightly larger for exports than for imports. …

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Head-content or Headcount? Short-term Skilled Labour Movements as a Source of Growth

Tani, Massimiliano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper contributes a theoretical model to study the effects of short-term movements of skilled labour on a country’s economic growth. As traditional migration models emphasise the long-term effects of migration on factor endowments, they typically omit the analysis of gross labour flows....

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Exports and Wages: Rent Sharing, Workforce Composition or Returns to Skills?

Macis, Mario; Schivardi, Fabiano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We use linked employer-employee data from Italy to explore the relationship between exports and wages. Our empirical …

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Productivity and Size of the Export Market: Evidence for West and East German Plants, 2004

Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Using unique recently released nationally representative high-quality data at the plant level, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between productivity and size of the export market for Germany, a leading actor on the world market for manufactured goods. It...

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The Microstructure of the Great Export Collapse in German Manufacturing Industries, 2008/2009

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

/2009. Almost all of the decline in exports was due to negative changes of exports in firms that continue to export (i.e. at the so …-called intensive margin) while the decrease of exports due to export stoppers (at the so-called extensive margin) was tiny. It is shown …

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Exports, Imports and Firm Survival: First Evidence for Manufacturing Enterprises in Germany

Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper documents the relationship between firm survival and three types of international trade activities - exports …

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Exports, Foreign Direct Investments and Productivity: Are Services Firms Different?

Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly …

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The Impacts of Trade Liberalization on Employment and Wages in Tunisian Industries

Haouas, Ilham; Yagoubi, Mahmoud; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

This paper investigates short and long-run effects of trade liberalization on employment and wages. Employment and wage equations are estimated using data (1971–96) for importable and exportable sectors in Tunisia. Causality tests show that causality is unidirectional. Wages strongly causes...

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Higher Wages in Exporting Firms: Self-Selection, Export Effect, or Both? First Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data

Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

While it is a stylized fact that exporting firms pay higher wages than non-exporting firms, the direction of the link between exporting and wages is less clear. Using a rich set of German linked employer-employee panel data we follow over time plants that start to export. We show that the...

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Much Ado About Nothing? Do Domestic Firms Really Benefit from Foreign Direct Investment?

Görg, Holger; Greenaway, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

productivity, wages and exports spillovers in developing, developed and transitional economies. Although theory can identify a …

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