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This paper studies the link between a firm's education level, export performance and wages of its workers. We argue … find that firms with high export intensities pay higher wages. However, an interaction term between export intensity and … skill intensity has a positive impact on wages and it absorbs the direct effect of the export intensity. That is, we find an …
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This paper documents for the first time the relationship between profitability and three types of international trade activities – exports, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from Germany, one of the leading actors on the world...
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we study the drivers of knowledge diffusion by looking at the dynamics of the export basket of countries, with particular … terms of ability to expand the export basket of countries, a migrant with college education or above is about ten times more …
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subsidies on export activities we find no impact of subsidies on the probability to start exporting, and only weak evidence for …. -- Subsidies ; export ; Germany ; enterprise panel data …
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We use data on Chinese manufacturing firms to study the connection between individual firm imports and firm export … of their exports and increased their export scope, though the magnitude of the effects differed by import source, firm … non-OECD countries generated larger firm export improvements, that private Chinese firms derived larger benefits from …
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direct investment by U.S. firms and the export trade of the United States, a subject of bitter controversy for at least the …
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domestic sales and export flows. Spanish manufacturing firms whose domestic sales were reduced by more during the crisis … observed a larger increase in their export flows, even after controlling for firms' supply determinants (such as labor costs …). This negative relationship between demand-driven changes in domestic sales and changes in export flows illustrates the …
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The competitive shock to the U.S. manufacturing sector spurred by rising China import competition could either catalyze or stifle innovation. Using three distinct sources of variation to identify rising trade exposure, we provide a causal analysis of the effect of surging import competition on...
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We document how demand shocks in export markets lead French multi-product exporters to re-allocate the mix of products … sold in those destinations. In response to positive demand shocks, those French firms skew their export sales towards their … competition from demand shocks in export markets – and the induced product mix reallocations – induce productivity changes within …
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the domestic and export market. Cohorts of new firms have lower average productivity than incumbents but are also a … the export market, are more productive than nonexporters. These patterns are consistent with the view that both the … domestic and export market sort out high productivity from low productivity firms and that the export market is a tougher …
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