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Average Wage, Qualification of the Workforce and Export Performance in German Enterprises : Evidence from Kombifid Data
Wagner, Joachim - 2012
workforce sheds new light on the role of highly qualified employees for success on export markets that is not revealed by the …
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Offshoring, Wages and Job Security of Temporary Workers
Görg, Holger - 2012
We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular attention to the question of whether workers on temporary contracts are affected differently than workers on permanent contracts. Data are taken from the German Socio-Economic...
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Isolating the Network Effect of Immigrants on Trade
Aleksynska, Mariya - 2012
those contributing to export by the largest margin. Business network effects seem particularly important in stimulating …
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Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Diasporas and Exports
Bratti, Massimiliano - 2018
) through which immigrants generate increased export flows from the regions in which they settle to their countries of origin … relationship going from diasporas and immigrant entrepreneurs towards export flows. Both the size of the diaspora and the number of …'s overall competitiveness and export flows towards all potential destinations …
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Exports, Imports and Wages : Evidence from Matched Firm-Worker-Product Panels
Martins, Pedro S. - 2009
The analysis of the effects of firm-level international trade on wages has so far focused on the role of exports, which are also typically treated as a composite good. However, we show in this paper that firm-level imports can actually be a wage determinant as important as exports. Furthermore,...
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Trade Adjustment : Worker Level Evidence
Autor, David H. - 2014
We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through 2007 by exploiting industry shocks to import competition stemming from China's spectacular rise as a manufacturing exporter paired with longitudinal data on individual earnings...
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On the Pro-Trade Effects of Immigrants
Bratti, Massimiliano - 2012
the areal unit, we find a positive association between immigrants' stocks and both export and import flows, in line with …
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New Imported Inputs, Wages and Worker Mobility
Colantone, Italo - 2019
We study how firms and industries adjust to increasing international trade in intermediate inputs. In particular, we provide a comprehensive assessment of the effects of new imported inputs on wage dynamics, on the skill-composition of the labor force, on worker mobility, and on assortative...
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Unobserved Heterogeneity and Risk in Wage Variance : Does Schooling Provide Earnings Insurance?
Mazza, Jacopo - 2011
We apply a recently proposed method to disentangle unobserved heterogeneity from risk in returns to education. We replicate the original study on US men and extend to US women, UK men and German men. Most original results are not robust. A college education cannot universally be considered an...
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Savings, Asset Holdings, and Temporary Migration
Dustmann, Christian - 2011
This paper analyzes savings and asset holdings of immigrants in relation to their return plans. We argue that savings and asset accumulation may be affected by return plans of immigrants. Further, the way savings and assets are held in the home- and host country may also be related to future...
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