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Greasing the Wheels of International Commerce: How Services Facilitate Firms' International Sourcing

Debaere, Peter; Görg, Holger; Raff, Horst - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services and the decision of … international sourcing of materials depends on a firm’s productivity and the availability of local services. These predictions are … materials to sales. In addition, we find evidence that services grease the wheels of international commerce: A greater …

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Structural Reforms and the Exchange Rate Regime: A Panel Analysis for the World versus OECD Countries

Belke, Ansgar; Herz, Bernhard; Vogel, Lukas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

We test the significance of the relationship between the exchange rate regime and the degree of structural reforms by estimating panel regressions for a world and an OECD country sample. The empirical results suggest a positive correlation between on the one side the adoption of an exchange rate...

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R&D and Employment: Some Evidence from European Microdata

Bogliacino, Francesco; Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

. However, the positive and significant impact of R&D expenditures on employment is detectable in services and high …

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Sectoral Explanations of Employment in Europe: The Role of Services

Antonello D’Agostino; Serafini, Roberta; Ward, Melanie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper investigates the determinants of the service sector employment share in the EU- 15, for the aggregate service sector, four sub-sectors and twelve service sector branches. Recently, both Europe and the US have experienced an increase in the share of servicerelated jobs in total...

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A Global View of Cross-Border Migration

di Giovanni, Julian; Levchenko, Andrei A.; Ortega, Francesc - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper evaluates the welfare impact of observed levels of migration and remittances in both origins and destinations, using a quantitative multi-sector model of the global economy calibrated to aggregate and firm-level data on 60 developed and developing countries. Our framework accounts...

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Welfare in Models of Trade with Heterogeneous Firms

Janiak, Alexandre - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

I illustrate that the welfare improvement property of the Melitz model is due to the shape of the aggregate labor demand curve, which slopes upwards. By slightly changing some assumptions in the model, this curve may have a negative slope. In this case, increases in aggregate productivity result...

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International Trade and Firm Performance: A Survey of Empirical Studies since 2006

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

published papers using data for firms from manufacturing or services industries to study the links between international trade …

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Modeling International Trade Flows Between Eastern European Countries and OECD Countries

Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert; Sova, Ana Maria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Our paper deals with econometric developments for the estimation of the gravity model which lead to convergent parameter estimates even when a correlation exists between the explanatory variables and the specific unobservable characteristics of each unit. We implement panel data econometric...

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Are US Wages Really Determined by European Labor-Market Institutions?

Meckl, Jürgen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This paper integrates institutionally determined wage rigidities into an otherwise standard Heckscher-Ohlin model of international trade. It accounts for differences in individual productivities and their implications for individual wage incomes and demand for education. Although preserving the...

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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

Since the early 1990s many empirical studies have been conducted on the impact of international migration on international trade, predominantly from the host country perspective. Because most studies have adopted broadly the same specification, namely a log-linear gravity model of export and...

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