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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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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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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 fact that large manufacturing plants export relatively more than small plants has been at the foundation of much … the effect of distance, distinct from any border effect. Export destinations tend to be further than domestic destinations …
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claim, we find a significant export wage premium for high-skilled workers in German manufacturing and an export wage … discount for lower skilled workers, using matched employer-employee data. Estimates suggest that the export wage premium to …
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A positive correlation between productivity and export market participation has been well documented in producer micro … export market. The investment decisions depend on the expected future profitability and the fixed and sunk costs incurred … dominant channel driving participation in the export market and R&D investment. Both R&D and exporting have a positive direct …
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We explore the relationship between proximity of buyers and sellers and the organizational form of outsourcing. Outsourcing can be "contractual" in which suppliers undertake specific investments or involve "generic" market transactions. Proximity expands the variety of products sourced through...
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questions examined are whether exporting improves productivity (learning) and/or whether more productive plants export (self … pronounced at around the time of entry into and exit from the export market. Thus, positive and robust cross …
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