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gap varies with the export intensity of the firm and the occupation of the worker. A model with heterogeneous firms and … supports this mechanism. First, we show that the wage gap is positively correlated with the complexity of the firm export … activity. Second, we show that wages react to changes in export intensity when the export destination coincides with the origin …
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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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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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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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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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