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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 …
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Previous empirical studies on the effect of age on productivity and wages find contradicting results. Some studies find that if workers grow older there is an increasing gap between productivity and wages, i.e. wages increase with age while productivity does not or does not increase at the same...
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Recent studies have shown that there are significant earnings differentials between immigrants and natives in Switzerland. The goal of this paper is to determine whether these differences can be attributed to diverging socio-economic endowments or to discrimination. We use the well-known...
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Increasing attention has been given to the fact that some multinational enterprises shift income to tax haven countries, an activity that generates inequality in corporate taxation. Here, we examine how profit shifting relates to wage inequality. Using rich matched employer-employee data from...
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­integration space, the identifying restriction of an infinitely price-elastic export supply curve produces best results. However, due to … missing export price statistics long-run interpretations are to be taken with care because they are conditional upon … assumptions on how costs and exchange-rates are passed through on export prices. …
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We evaluate the impact of firm-specific export subsidies on exports in Colombia. Using a two-stage Heckman selection … persistence in exports, we find that although, in general, subsidies exhibit positive impact on export volumes, this impact is …
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, we propose that there may be a direct effect as well as an indirect effect via export activity. We test these hypotheses … dominated by the indirect effect via the export channel. Services do not face any effects of volatility on R&D intensities …
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This paper studies the determinants of the export activity of family SMEs, disentangling the three main dimensions that … Spanish SMEs, show that this approach identifies the determinants that explain the export activity of family SMEs better than …
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the impact of plant characteristics on export activities varies along the conditional size distribution of the export … status matters at the upper tail of the conditional distribution of the export/sales ratio only... …
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