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Relative wage variation and industry location
Bernard, Andrew B.; Redding, Stephen; Schott, Peter K.; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
Relative wages vary considerably across regions of the United Kingdom, with skill-abundant regions exhibiting lower skill premia than skill-scarce regions. This paper shows that the location of economic activity is correlated with the variation in relative wages. U.K. regions with low skill...
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Endowments, market potential, and industrial location: evidence from interwar Poland (1918-1939)
Wolf, Nikolaus - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
The paper explores the determinants of industry location across interwar Poland. After more than 120 years of political and economic separation, Poland was reunified at the end of 1918. In consequence, its industry faced massive structural changes: the removal of internal tariff barriers and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744846
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Factor endowments and production in European regions
Redding, Stephen; Vera-Martin, Mercedes - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001
This paper analyses patterns of production across 14 industries in 45 regions from 7 European countries since 1975. We estimate a structural equation derived directly from Heckscher- Ohlin theory that relates an industry’s share of a region’s GDP to factor endowments and relative prices....
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Specialization dynamics
Redding, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
This paper proposes a new empirical framework for analyzing specialization dynamics. A country’s pattern of specialization is viewed as a distribution across sectors, and statistical techniques for analyzing the evolution of this entire distribution are employed. The empirical framework is...
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Estimating the extensive margin of trade
Santos Silva, Joao; Tenreyro, Silvana; Wei, Kehai - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
Understanding and quantifying the determinants of the number of sectors or firms exporting in a given country is of relevance for the assessment of trade policies. Estimation of models for the number of exporting sectors, however, poses a challenge because the dependent variable has both a lower...
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External integration, structural transformation and economic development: evidence from Argentina
Fajgelbaum, Pablo; Redding, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
This paper uses the natural experiment of Argentina’s integration into world markets in the late-nineteenth century to provide evidence on the role of internal geography in shaping the effects of external integration. We develop a quantitative model of the distribution of economic activity...
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Survival of the best fit: exposure to low-wage countries and the (uneven) growth of U.S. manufacturing plants
Bernard, Andrew B.; Bradford Jensen, J.; Schott, Peter K. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
This paper examines the role of international trade in the reallocation of U.S. manufacturing activity within and across industries from 1977 to 1997. It introduces a new measure of industry exposure to international trade, motivated by the Heckscher-Ohlin model, which focuses on where imports...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071123
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Heterogeneous firms and trade
Melitz, Marc J.; Redding, Stephen J. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
markets. This approach explains a variety of features exhibited in disaggregated trade data, including the higher productivity … industry and firm productivity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745182
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Productivity and the sourcing modes of multinational firms: evidence from French firm-level data
Defever, Fabrice; Toubal, Farid - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
We investigate the role of a firm’s total factor productivity in its decision to import from their affiliates rather … strong empirical support for the theoretical predictions of the model. In particular, high-productivity firms that have a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071334
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The roles of import competition and export opportunities for technical change
Steinwender, Claudia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015
productivity of firms. However, there is less consensus about the underlying mechanism at work. While trade papers focus on access … leads to productivity increases, but only for firms that were already highly productive before. The evidence on import … competition is weaker. If anything, initially low-tech firms manage to increase their productivity in response to increased …
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