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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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We use a unique cross-section survey of manufacturing firms from four European countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain) linked with balance sheet data to study the relationship between key aspects of globalization and firm-level markups. The main results are: (i) Exporting is positively...
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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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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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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 … diminishing in subsidy size and in the degree of firm's connectedness to government officials. -- Export subsidies ; exports …
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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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1998-2001, suggest the existence of positive and highly significant effect of spending on new technology on the export …
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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 … ; export activity ; Familiness ; Spanish firms ; F-PEC scale …
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There is a well-established theoretical and empirical literature that shows that exporters are more innovative than otherwise equivalent non-exporters. In this paper we ask whether this is also true when it comes to the effects of adopting greener production techniques. Using an instrumental...
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