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Structural Change in MENA Remittance Flows
Naufal, George S; Genc, Ismail H. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
After independence, the GCC countries relied heavily on foreign workers from fellow Arab countries. Thus, remittances flowed from GCC to other countries in MENA. In the 1980s-1990s labor source switched to South Asia; so did the flow of remittances. This paper examines the consequences of the...
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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 …, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from Germany, one of the … imports and two-way trading for firm survival in a highly developed country. Descriptive statistics and regression analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283584
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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
document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the … imports ('learning-by-importing'). We find a positive link between importing and productivity. From an empirical model with … productive enterprises into imports, but no evidence for positive effects of importing on productivity due to learning-by-importing. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822289
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762106
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Real Unit Labour Costs in Eurozone Countries: Drivers and Clusters
Ordóñez, Javier; Sala, Hector; Silva, José I. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We examine the trajectories of the real unit labour costs (RULCs) in a selection of Eurozone economies. Strong asymmetries in the convergence process of the RULCs and its components – real wages, capital intensity, and technology – are uncovered through decomposition and cluster analyses. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884247
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Trade Reforms and Market Selection: Evidence from Manufacturing Plants in Colombia
Eslava, Marcela; Haltiwanger, John C.; Kugler, Adriana; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We use plant output and input prices to decompose the profit margin into four parts: productivity, demand shocks, mark-ups and input costs. We find that each of these market fundamentals are important in explaining plant exit. We then use variation across sectors in tariff changes after the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005030881
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Regionalism in West Africa: Do Polar Countries Reap the Benefits? A Role for Migration
Konseiga, Adama - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
In the present globalization era an increasing attention is paid to the ambiguous relationship between international migration, brain drain, and economic growth, but few papers analyzed the growth impact of skilled migration. The paper filled the research gap by building the first dataset on...
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