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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 …

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Self-Selection And Earnings During Volatile Transition

Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N. - 2004

Using Bulgarian Integrated Household Surveys for 1995, 1997 and 2001 this paper explores determinants of labor force status – not working, public sector employment, private sector employment and self-employment – and earnings for each of the three employment sectors. We find that while...

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Age, wage and productivity

van Ours, Jan C.; Stoeldraijer, Lenny - 2010

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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Self-employment and wage earning: Hungary during transition

Co, Catherine Y.; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2002

We examine the earnings determinants of the self-employed and wage earners in Hungary in the mid-1990's, taking into account two forms of selection: selection into working or non-working for every individual in our sample and selection into self-employment or wage-earning jobs for workers only....

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Pennies from Haven : Wages and Profit Shifting

Alstadsæter, Annette; Bjørkheim, Julie Brun; Davies, … - 2022

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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State visits and international trade

Nitsch, Volker - 2005

Politicians travel extensively abroad, for various reasons. One purpose of external visits is to improve bilateral economic relations. In this paper, I examine the effect of state visits on international trade. I use a large data set covering the travel activities of the heads of state of...

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