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Making (Small) Firms Happy. The Heterogeneous Effect of Trade Facilitation Measures
Fontagne, Lionel - 2016
This paper considers the asymmetric effect of Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) policies on heterogeneous exporters, based on matching a detailed panel of French firm exports to a new database of Trade Facilitation Indicators (TFIs) released recently by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation...
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The Extensive Margin of Exporting Products : A Firm-Level Analysis
Arkolakis, Costas - 2011
We use a panel of Brazilian exporters, their products, and destination markets to document a set of regularities for multi-product exporters: (i) few top-selling products account for the bulk of a firm's exports in a market, (ii) the distribution of exporter scope (the number of products per...
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Technological Regimes in the Brazilian Manufacturing Industry : An Empirical Investigation
Vieira, Vinicius - 2013
The paper aims at assessing technological regimes in the context of the Brazilian manufacturing industry along the 2000-2005 period. The industries were classified in terms of SM-I and SM-II technological regimes by means of multivariate statistical methods based on variable approximating...
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Service Quality in Electricity Distribution in Brazil : A Malmquist Approach
Marinho, Alexandre - 2017
The paper undertakes a dynamic analysis for service quality in the electricity distribution in Brazil between 2010 and …
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The Deepening China Brazil Economic Relationship
Whalley, John - 2015
We document key features of the deepening economic relationship between Brazil and China. This is evident from sharply … international fora. Data presented show bilateral trade between Brazil and China surging after 2001 and China is now Brazil …'s largest export market while Brazil's export share to the US has halved. The number of bilateral cooperation agreements between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013038340
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Earnings Inequality and the Minimum Wage : Evidence from Brazil
Engbom, Niklas - 2017
We quantify the effect of a minimum wage on compression throughout the earnings distribution. Using the case of Brazil …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960361
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Labour Market Participation in Brazil : A Discrete Game Approach
Resende, Marcelo - 2017
The paper aims to investigate the labour market participation of couples in Brazil in 2013. The observed endogenous …
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The Structure of Worker Compensation in Brazil, with a Comparison to France and the United States
Menezes-Filho, Naercio - 2010
We employ a comprehensive matched employer-employee data set for Brazil to analyze wage determinants and compare … selectivity of Brazilian workers into formal employment. The links between firm performance and wage components in Brazil resemble …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012761738
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Mining Matters : Natural Resource Extraction and Local Business Constraints
De Haas, Ralph - 2016
We estimate the impact of local mining activity on the business constraints experienced by 22,150 firms across eight resource-rich countries. We find that with the presence of active mines, the business environment in the immediate vicinity (20 km) of a firm deteriorates but business constraints...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977161
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What Drives Home Market Advantage?
Cosar, Kerem - 2015
In the automobile industry, as in many tradable goods markets, firms earn their highest market share within their domestic market. This home market advantage persists despite substantial integration of international markets during the past several decades. The goal of this paper is to quantify...
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