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Intellectual property rights, technology transfer and exports in developing countries
Yang, Lei; Maskus, Keith E. - 2008
improve the ability of firms in developing countries to break into export markets. A Northern firm with a superior process …
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Sequential Exporting Across Countries and Products
Albornoz, Facundo; Calvo Pardo, Hector F.; Corcos, Gregory - 2021
their profitability in different countries and products, but learn it as they start to export. As a consequence, exporters …, we find empirical support consistent with such a mechanism, where firms learn from their initial export experiences and …
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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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Exporters, Multinationals and Residual Wage Inequality : Evidence and Theory
Schroeder, Sarah - 2021
This paper studies the implications for wage inequality of two distinct forms of globalisation, namely trade and foreign direct investment. I use German linked employer-employee data to (1) jointly estimate the exporter and the multinational wage premium and (2) to further distinguish between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314924
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Uncertain productivity growth and the choice between FDI and export
Yalcin, Erdal - 2009
between export and FDI. The model combines the proximity-concentration trade-off framework with the real option methodology …
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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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Returns to tenure or seniority?
Buhai, I. Sebastian; Portela, Miguel; Teulings, Coen N.; … - 2008
This study documents two empirical regularities, using data for Denmark and Portugal. First, workers who are hired last, are the first to leave the firm (Last In, First Out; LIFO). Second, workers' wages rise with seniority (= a worker's tenure relative to the tenure of her colleagues). We seek...
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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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Exports, foreign direct investment and the costs of corporate taxation
Keuschnigg, Christian - 2007
This paper develops a model of a monopolistically competitive industry with extensive and intensive business investment and shows how these margins respond to changes in average and marginal corporate tax rates. Intensive investment refers to the size of a firm's capital stock. Extensive...
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Foreign market entry under incomplete contracts
Seidel, Tobias - 2010
I show in this paper that incomplete contracts affect a firm's decision about serving foreign customers through exports or local sales from an affiliated plant. When contracts between two agents within a firm are too costly to write, the share of multinational firms may be higher or lower...
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