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Age, Wage and Productivity
van Ours, Jan C.; Stoeldraijer, Lenny - 2021
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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Firm Export Survival : Micro-Evidence from the Philippines
Pelkmans-Balaoing, Annette O. - 2017
This paper explores firms' export dynamics in emerging economies where local firms face stiff foreign competition, both … at home and abroad, and thus compelled to choose the level of quality in which to export. We develop and test a model of … vertical product differentiation where the link between export performance and product quality is central. The impact of other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963749
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Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns
Kerr, William - 2019
. The instrumented elasticity of export growth on the intensive margin with respect to the exporter's productivity growth is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012902445
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Explaining the Size Differences of Exporter Productivity Premia : Theory and Evidence
Geishecker, Ingo - 2014
Why is it that exporter productivity premia (EPP) differ so widely in size? We take this question to the theory and to the data. We derive the sectoral EPP in a standard heterogeneous firms trade model and apply the insights from the model to 13 years of data for all Danish manufacturing firms....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057657
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Contagious Exporting and Foreign Ownership : Evidence from Firms in Shanghai Using a Bayesian Spatial Bivariate Probit Model
Baltagi, Badi H. - 2018
Whether a firm is able to attract foreign capital and whether it may participate at the export market depends on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012916953
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014255423
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Trade, Wages, and Profits
Egger, Hartmut - 2012
This paper formulates a structural empirical model of heterogeneous firms whose workers exhibit fair-wage preferences, leading to a link between a firm's operating profits and wages of workers employed by this firm. We estimate the parameters of the model in a data-set of five European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013101194
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276096
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Returns to ICT Skills
Falck, Oliver - 2016
How important is mastering information and communication technology (ICT) in modern labor markets? We answer this question with unique data on ICT skills tested in 19 countries. Our two instrumental-variable models exploit technologically induced variation in broadband Internet availability that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997356
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013299336