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The world's rust belts : the heterogeneous effects of deindustrialization on 1,993 cities in six countries
Gagliardi, Luisa; Moretti, Enrico; Serafinelli, Michel - 2023
We investigate the employment consequences of deindustrialization for 1,993 cities in France, Germany, Great Britain … number of cities was able to adapt to the negative shock caused by deindustrialization. The U.S. has the lowest share … then seek to understand why some former manufacturing hubs recovered while others didn't. We find that deindustrialization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014444059
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Concentration and market size : lower bound estimates for the Brazilian industry
Resende, Marcelo (contributor) - 2008
The paper estimates the lower bound for market concentration taking as reference the framework advanced by Sutton (1991). Quantile regression methods were considered in the context of the Brazilian manufacturing industry in 2005 and separate estimates were obtained for exogenous and endogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003772219
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Labor market pooling, outsourcing and labor contracts
Picard, Pierre M.; Wildasin, David E. - 2009
Economic regions, such as urban agglomerations, face external demand and price shocks that produce income risk. Workers in large and diversified agglomerations may benefit from reduced wage volatility, while firms may outsource the production of intermediate goods and realize benefits from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003882588
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The role of the corporate income tax as an automatic stabilizer
Büttner, Thiess; Fuest, Clemens - 2009
This paper analyses the effectiveness of the corporate income tax as an automatic stabilizer. It employs a unique firm-level dataset of German manufacturers combining financial statements with firm-specific information about credit market restrictions. The results show that approximately 20 per...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003887453
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Sources of the German productivity demise : tracing the effects of industry-level ICT investment
Eicher, Theo S. (contributor); Roehn, Oliver (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003462870
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The twin effects of globalization : evidence from a sample of Indian manufacturing firms
Daveri, Francesco; Manasse, Paolo; Serra, Danila - 2010
Employees of globalized firms face a riskier menu of labor market outcomes. They face a more uncertain stream of earnings and riskier employment prospects. However, they may also have stronger incentives to train and upgrade their skills and/or may benefit from more rapid careers. Hence, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008697164
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Competition in the service sector and the performances of manufacturing firms : does liberalization matter?
Forlani, Emanuele - 2010
Services form an increasing proportion of the inputs used in manufacturing. We explore empirically whether competition in the service sector affects downstream manufacturing firms' efficiency, via the inputs used. Using French micro-data for services, we calculate proxies for competition in...
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Off-shoring and productivity growth in the Italian manufacturing industries
Daveri, Francesco (contributor);  … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003688930
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An analysis of the impact of public infrastructure on productivity performance of Mexican industry
Mamatzakis, Emmanuel C. (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003599386
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The Ifo industry growth accounting database
Roehn, Oliver (contributor); Eicher, Theo S. (contributor);  … - 2007
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