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On the Multivariate Analysis of the "Lisbon Process"
Heshmati, Almas; Tausch, Arno; Bajalan, Chemen S.J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Starting from Professor Kornai’s assertion about the necessity to focus on the long-term perspectives of the transformation process, we analyze in this paper the Lisbon performance of the countries of the European Union from such a long-term, structural perspective. We present in a simple form...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762392
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Why More West than East German Firms Export
Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Using unique new data and a recently introduced non-linear decomposition technique this paper shows that the huge difference in the propensity to export between West and East German plants is to a large part due to differences in firm size and human capital intensity.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822270
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Openness and Technological Innovations in Developing Countries: Evidence from Firm-Level Surveys
Almeida, Rita; Fernandes, Ana Margarida - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper examines international technology transfers using firm-level data across 43 developing countries. Our findings show that exporting and importing activities are important channels for the transfer of technology. Majority foreign-owned firms are less likely to engage in technological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822275
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Higher Productivity in Importing German Manufacturing Firms: Self-Selection, Learning from Importing, or Both?
Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper uses a newly available comprehensive panel data set for manufacturing enterprises from 2001 to 2005 to document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the world market for goods. Furthermore, for the first time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822289
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Exports and Labour Demand: Searching for Functional Structure in Multi-Output Multi-Skill Technologies
Koebel, Bertrand M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
In order to simplify the representation of a technological relationship between inputs and outputs, a production unit’s technology must typically satisfy some restrictive conditions, some of them being well known in the literature. This paper presents new results for aggregating labour inputs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822473
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Trade, Wages, and Collective Bargaining: Evidence from France
Carluccio, Juan; Fougère, Denis; Gautier, Erwan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
shocks have a positive effect on wages. Exports increase wages for all occupational categories while offshoring has … elasticity of wages with respect to exports and offshoring is higher than in firms with no collective bargaining. Wage gains … associated with collective bargaining are similar across worker categories. Keywords: exports, offshoring, firm-level wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011196641
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Self-Selection into Export Markets by Business Services Firms: Evidence from France, Germany and the United Kingdom
Temouri, Yama; Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This study reports results from an empirical investigation of business services sector firms that (start to) export, comparing exporters to firms that serve the national market only. We estimate identically specified empirical models using comparable enterprise level data from France, Germany,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008611328
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Exports, Imports and Profitability: First Evidence for Manufacturing Enterprises
Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
activities – exports, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009149152
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371880
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325424