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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...
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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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Wage Risk and the Skill Premium
Slavík, Ctirad - 2020
The skill premium has increased significantly in the United States in the last five decades. During the same period, individual wage risk has also increased. This paper proposes a mechanism through which a rise in wage risk increases the skill premium. Intuitively, a rise in uninsured wage risk...
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Sorting and Wage Premiums in Immoral Work
Schneider, Florian - 2020
We use surveys, laboratory experiments and administrative labor-market data to study howheterogeneity in the perceived immorality of work and in workers' aversion to acting immorallyinteract to impact labor market outcomes. Specifically, we investigate whether those individualsleast concerned...
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Wage Effects of Employer-Mediated Transfers
Garriga, Santiago; Tortarolo, Dario - 2021
We explore whether the way in which tax credits are disbursed affects the gross wage of workers. We exploit an unusual reform in Argentina that shifted the disbursement responsibility of child benefits from employers to a government agency in a staggered fashion, from 2003 to 2010. Using...
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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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The Motherhood Wage and Income Traps
Barigozzi, Francesca; Cremer, Helmuth; Thibault, Emmanuel - 2023
We present a simple dynamic model based on on-the-job human capital accumulation affecting the dynamic of wage rates and labor earnings. We show how these dynamics are determined by the interplay between the supply and demand sides of the labor market. The model can generate and explain the...
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Worker Beliefs About Outside Options
Jäger, Simon; Roth, Christopher; Roussille, Nina; … - 2022
Workers wrongly anchor their beliefs about outside options on their current wage. In particular, low-paid workers underestimate wages elsewhere. We document this anchoring bias by eliciting workers’ beliefs in a representative survey in Germany and comparing them to measures of actual outside...
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Export intensity and plant characteristics : what can we learn from quantile regression?
Wagner, Joachim - In: Review of world economics 142 (2006) 1, pp. 195-203
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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