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Firms' exports, volatility and skills : evidence from France

Bas, Maria; Bombarda, Pamela; Jean, Sébastien; … - 2019

' export activity and job stability across employment skills. Relying on detailed firm-level data from France for the period … provide evidence on the causal effect of the export performance of the firm on the volatility of employment of different …

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Managing trade : evidence from China and the US

Bloom, Nicholas; Manova, Kalina; Van Reenen, John; Sun, … - 2018

We present a heterogeneous-firm model in which management ability increases both pro- duction efficiency and product quality. Combining six micro-datasets on management prac- tices, production and trade in Chinese and American firms, we find broad support for the model's predictions. First,...

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Fixed export costs and export behavior

Castro, Luis; Li, Ben; Maskus, Keith E.; Xie, Yiqing - 2014

This paper provides a direct test of how fixed export costs and productivity jointly determine firm-level export …, while those with higher productivity export more. These outcomes are the foundation of the widely-used sorting mechanism in … the trade models with firm heterogeneity. A particular and novel finding is that high-productivity nonexporters face …

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Voice at work

Harju, Jarkko; Jäger, Simon; Schoefer, Benjamin - 2021

(job security, health, subjective job quality, and wages). Worker voice slightly raised firm survival, productivity, and …

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Firm export survival : micro-evidence from the Philippines

Pelkmans-Balaoing, E.O. Annette; Heuvelen, Gerrit Hugo van - 2016

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...

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Let's switch to the cloud : cloud adoption and its effect on IT investment and productivity

Duso, Tomaso; Schiersch, Alexander - 2022

, cloud usage is expected to increase the productivity of firms, as it allows them to quickly customize the IT they require to … IT investment in any sectors, it does significantly improve labor productivity for firms in manufacturing and in …

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Globalization : a woman's best friend? ; exporters and the gender wage gap

Bøler, Esther Ann; Javorcik, Beata K. Smarzynska; … - 2015

In the absence of financial frictions, the purpose of thin capitalization rules is to limit multinational firms’ possibilities of engaging in tax planning via debt shifting. This paper analyzes the effects of thin capitalization rules in the case where firms have limited access to external...

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Export decision under risk

Sousa, José de; Disdier, Anne-Célia; Gaigné, Carl - 2016

Using firm and industry data, we establish two facts: (i) Uncertainty about demand conditions not only reduces export sales and exporting probabilities but also makes exports less sensitive to trade policy; (ii) the most productive exporters are more affected by higher industry-wide expenditure...

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Growing like China : firm performance and global production line position

Chor, Davin; Manova, Kalina; Yu, Zhihong - 2020

firms position themselves in global production lines and how this evolves with productivity and performance over the firm …

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Productivity as if space mattered : an application to factor markets across China

Cheng, Wenya; Morrow, John; Tacharoen, Kitjawat - 2013

results quantify the role of regional factor markets in firm productivity and location. Considering modern China as a large …

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