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Chen, Natalie; Novy, Dennis; Perroni, Carlo; Wong, … - 2023

aggregate structural change. Rising manufacturing productivity and falling international trade costs further contribute to the …Using firm-level data from France, we document that the shift of economic activity from manufacturing to services over … manufacturing firms that increasingly locate in suburban and rural areas. Motivated by these findings, we estimate a structural …

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Off-shoring and productivity growth in the Italian manufacturing industries

Daveri, Francesco; Jona-Lasinio, Cecilia - 2008

We study the relation between the off-shoring of intermediates and services and productivity growth in the Italian … manufacturing industries in 1995-2003. Our results indicate that the off-shoring of intermediates within the same industry ("narrow … off-shoring") is beneficial for productivity growth, while the off-shoring of services is not. We also find that the way …

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Financial, Institutional, and Macroeconomic Determinants of Cross-Country Portfolio Equity Flows

Afonso, António; Alves, José; Beck, Krzysztof; … - 2022

We consider a new dataset that provides a description of the population of financial equity flows between developed countries from 2001 to 2018. We follow the standard practice of controlling for pull and push factors as well as gravity-style variables, while also accounting for the business...

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Pay and Unemployment Determinants of Migration Flows in the European Union

Afonso, António; Alves, José; Beck, Krzysztof - 2022

We analyze the migration drivers within the European Union countries. For a set of 23 EU countries over the 1995-2019 period, we use Bayesian Model Averaging and quantile regression to assess notably the relevance of unemployment and earnings. We find that the existence of a common border...

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Measuring Alpha in the Fund Management Industry: Do Female Managers Perform Better?

Babalos, Vassilis; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; … - 2013

This paper examines the performance of 358 European diversified equity mutual funds controlling for gender differences. Fund performance is evaluated against funds' designated market indices and representative style portfolios. Consistently with previous studies, no significant differences in...

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Demographic, residential, and socioeconomic effects on the distribution of 19th century African-American stature

Carson, Scott Alan - 2008

The use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in the economic literature, and heights are related with vitamin D. Although African-Americans and whites have the genetic ability to reach similar terminal statures, 19th century blacks were consistently shorter...

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Demographic, residential, and socioeconomic effects on the distribution of 19th century US white statures

Carson, Scott Alan - 2009

Using a source of 19th century US state prison records, this study addresses European-American stature variation. The most commonly cited sources for stature variation are diets, disease, and work effort. However, vitamin D is also vital in human statures and health. This paper demonstrates that...

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Foreign Languages and Trade

Fidrmuc, Jan; Fidrmuc, Jarko - 2014

Cultural factors and especially common languages are well-known determinants of trade. By contrast, the knowledge of foreign languages was not explored in the literature so far. We combine traditional gravity models with data on fluency in the main languages used in EU and candidate countries....

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A Ricardian Analysis of the Impact of Climate Change on European Agriculture

Van Passel, Steven; Massetti, Emanuele; Mendelsohn, … - 2014

This research estimates the impact of climate on European agriculture using a continental scale Ricardian analysis. Climate, soil, geography and regional socio-economic variables are matched with farm level data from 37,612 farms across Western Europe. We demonstrate that a median quantile...

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Explaining the Body Mass Index Gaps between Turkish Immigrants and Germans in West Germany 2002-2012: A Decomposition Analysis of Socio-economic Causes

Dang, Rui - 2015

In this paper, we decompose body mass index (BMI) differences between Turkish immigrants and Germans in West Germany for women and men. We focus on isolating the part of BMI differences that can be explained by differences in observed socioeconomic status from the part attributable to...

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