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EXPORTS AND LOGISTICS
Behar, Alberto; Manners, Phil; Nelson, Benjamin D. - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2009
Do better trade logistics reduce trade costs, raising a country´s exports? Yes, but the magnitude of the effectdepends on country size. Applying a new gravity model to a comprehensive logistics index, we …nd that anaverage-sized country would raise exports by about 46% after a one-standard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870125
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Average Wage, Qualification of the Workforce andExport Performance in German Enterprises:Evidence from KombiFiD Data
Wagner, Joachim - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
new light on the role of highly qualified employees forsuccess on export markets that is not revealed by the average wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486880
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Exports, Foreign Direct Investments and Productivity:Are Services Firms Different?
Wagner, Joachim - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
developed country. It uses unique new datafrom Germany - one of the leading actors on the world market for services - that … evidence that firms with fdi are lessproductive than firms that export.... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522217
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Exports and Productivity Growth:First Evidence from a Continuous Treatment Approach
Fryges, Helmut; Wagner, Joachim - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
's exportstatus and the growth of its labour productivity, using the firms' export status as a binarytreatment variable and comparing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863028
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Productivity and Size of the Export Market:Evidence for West and East German Plants, 2004
Wagner, Joachim - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between productivityand size of the export market for Germany, a leading …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863226
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Export Entry, Export Exit, and Productivity in German Manufacturing Industries
Wagner, Joachim - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007
panel of exporting establishments from the manufac-turing sector of Germany from 1995 to 2004 to test three hypotheses … productive than firms that continue to export in t. (H2) Firms that start to export in year t are less productive than firms that … export both in year t-1 and in year t. (H3) Firms from a cohort of export starters that still export in the last year of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864521
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Exports and Productivity in Germany
Wagner, Joachim - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007
presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and productivity in Germany, a leading actor on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864633
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Why more West than East German firms export
Wagner, Joachim - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007
difference in the propensity to export between West and East German plants is to a large part due to differences in firm size …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864634
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Speeding Up the Product Cycle:The Role of Host Country Reforms
Sheng, Liugang; Yang, Dennis Tao - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
We study the effects of policy reforms in the South on the decisions of intrafirm and arm’slength production transfers by Northern firms. We show theoretically that relaxing ownershipcontrols and improving contract enforcement can induce multinational companies to expandproduct varieties to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522208
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Why Ex(Im)porters Pay More:Evidence from Matched Firm-Worker Panels
Martins, Pedro S.; Opromolla, Luca David - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
theimport as well as the export activity of the firm. These two innovations allow us to avoid largebiases that characterized the … aim atexplaining participation both in export and import markets and at including non-neoclassicallabor market features …
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