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The Effect of the Real Oil Price on Regional Wage Dispersion
Kehrig, Matthias - 2017
We find that oil supply shocks decrease average real wages, particularly skilled wages, and increase wage dispersion across regions, particularly unskilled wage dispersion. In a model with spatial energy intensity differences and nontradables, labor demand shifts, while explaining the response...
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International Migration of Skilled Workers with Endogenous Policies
Djajic, Slobodan - 2014
We study the interaction between the optimal immigration policy of a host country and education policy of a source country in a model of international migration of skilled workers. Acquisition of human capital is driven by the academic and career opportunities at home and abroad. Greater...
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Does Importing Intermediates Increase the Demand for Skilled Workers? Plant-Level Evidence from Indonesia
Kasahara, Hiroyuki; Liang, Yawen; Rodrigue, Joel - 2021
This paper examines whether importing has contributed to skill upgrading among Indonesian plants. Our data records the distribution of years of employee schooling in each plant. We examine how importing affects the demand for highly educated workers within both production and non-production...
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Taxing Human Capital Efficiently When Qualified Labour is Mobile
Richter, Wolfram F.; Kunze, Lars - 2021
The paper studies the effect that skilled labour mobility has on efficient education policy. The model is one of two periods in which a representative taxpayer decides on labour, education, and saving. The government can only use linear tax and subsidy instruments. It is shown that the mobility...
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Exports, Investment and Firm-Level Sales Volatility
Riano, Alejandro - 2011
This paper presents a dynamic model of risk-averse producers' decision to invest in physical capital and to export. The model features irreversible investment, no capital markets and fixed and sunk costs to export. Several features of the distribution of investment rates and export participation...
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The Extensive Margin of Exporting Products : A Firm-Level Analysis
Arkolakis, Costas - 2011
multi-product exporters: (i) few top-selling products account for the bulk of a firm's exports in a market, (ii) the …
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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 …
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Resource Windfalls, Macroeconomic Stability and Growth : The Role of Political Institutions
Arezki, Rabah - 2011
We use a new dataset on non-resource GDP to examine the performance of commodity-exporting countries in terms of macroeconomic stability and economic growth in a panel of up to 129 countries during the period 1970-2007. Our main findings are threefold. First, we find that overall government...
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The Collapse Speed of China's Exports in the 2008-2009 Financial Crisis
Jing, Ran - 2011
This paper studies the performance of China's exports during the 2008—2009 financial crisis. It focuses on the speed at … which China's exports were hit by this downturn. Product-country monthly exports data is utilized. It is found that GDP … growth rates of importing countries play an important role in explaining how fast exports fall below the values of the same …
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Private Labels and International Trade : Trading Variety for Volume
Blanchard, Emily J. - 2013
diversity of exports. Direct sales maintain a firm's unique product characteristics (‘brand equity'), whereas trade through an …
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