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Average wage, qualification of the workforce and export performance in German enterprises: Evidence from KombiFiD data
Wagner, Joachim - 2012
workforce sheds new light on the role of highly qualified employees for success on export markets that is not revealed by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282156
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Are Refugees Different from Economic Immigrants? : Some Empirical Evidence on the Heterogeneity of Immigrant Groups in the United States
Cortes, Kalena E. - 2004
This paper analyzes how the implicit difference in time horizons between refugees and economic immigrants affects subsequent human capital investments and wage assimilation. The analysis uses the 1980/1990 Integrated Public Use Samples of the Census to study labor market outcomes of immigrants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261826
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Rates of Return to Education: The View of Students in Switzerland
Wolter, Stefan C.; Zbinden, André - 2001
Wage expectations are important determinants for individual schooling decisions. However, research on individual expectations of students is scarce. The paper presents the Swiss results of a survey that was conducted in 10 European countries. Its main findings are that point estimates of wages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262577
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Financial Development and Export Concentration
Unger, Florian - 2023
This paper analyzes the impact of financial development on export concentration. I incorporate credit constraints into … increases innovation activity and export shares of larger firms. In contrast, a model variant in which exporters have to finance … production costs instead of investments suggests a negative impact of financial development on export concentration as smaller …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014255423
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Exports, imports and wages: evidence from matched firm-worker-product panels
Martins, Pedro Silva; Opromolla, Luca David - 2009
The analysis of the effects of firm-level international trade on wages has so far focused on the role of exports, which are also typically treated as a composite good. However, we show in this paper that firm-level imports can actually be a wage determinant as important as exports. Furthermore,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275836
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Wage structure effects of international trade: Evidence from a small open economy
Du Caju, Philip; Rycx, Francois; Tojerow, Ilan - 2011
both imports and exports, and iii) examine the impact of imports according to the country of origin. Looking at the export …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278541
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Why ex(im)porters pay more: Evidence from matched firm-worker panels
Martins, Pedro S.; Opromolla, Luca David - 2011
import as well as the export activity of the firm. These two innovations allow us to avoid large biases that characterized … recent theories that aim at explaining participation both in export and import markets and at including non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280654
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Exports and wages: Rent sharing, workforce composition or returns to skills?
Macis, Mario; Schivardi, Fabiano - 2012
' incentives to export. The results indicate that the export wage premium is due to exporting firms both (1) paying a wage premium … document that the export wage premium is larger for workers with more export-related experience. This indicates that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282466
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Robust estimation of linear fixed effects panel data models with an application to the exporter productivity premium
Verardi, Vincenzo; Wagner, Joachim - 2010
In empirical studies it often happens that some variables for some units are far away from the other observations in the sample. These extreme observations, or outliers, often have a large impact on the results of statistical analyses - conclusions based on a sample with and without these units...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269751
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Productivity premia for German manufacturing firms exporting to the Euro-area and beyond: First evidence from robust fixed effects estimations
Verardi, Vincenzo; Wagner, Joachim - 2010
-econometric studies for 16 different countries on the relationship between export destination and firm performance. (2) It reports … share of outliers. Using a clean sample without outliers the estimated productivity premium of firms that export to the Euro …-zone only is no longer much smaller that the premium of firms that export beyond the Euro-zone, too, and the premium itself over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269790