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This paper considers labor market adjustments following a large import shock in the German clothing industry caused by the phasing out of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement. Using the German shoe industry as a control group and administrative data, we study adjustments on the individual and firm level...
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This paper investigates the impact of energy policies on the export performance of firms. There has been a long policy … technologies. Regression analyses and matching approaches both show very few impacts of energy policy on export performance …
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and export exposure. We find that the rise of "the East" in the world economy caused substantial job losses in German …We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and "the East" - China and Eastern Europe … regions specialized in import-competing industries, both in manufacturing and beyond. Regions specialized in export …
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control for issues of self-selection and endogeneity in the firms' decisions to export by providing fixed effects and …
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It is widely believed that globalization affects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To provide evidence for this, we analyze the effect of firms' exporting behavior on the elasticity of labor demand. Using rich, German administrative linked employer-employee panel...
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The relationship between individual firms’ export behaviour and firm performance has been studied extensively in the …-exporting companies, using the firms’ export status as a binary treatment variable and comparing the performance of exporting and non … individual firms’ export behaviour. Instead of a binary treatment variable, the GPS method allows for continuous treatment, that …
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This study reports results from an empirical investigation of business services sector firms that (start to) export … and productivity hold in the years before the export start, which indicates self-selection into exporting of more … relationship between profitability and starting to export is found. …
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/2009. Almost all of the decline in exports was due to negative changes of exports in firms that continue to export (i.e. at the so …-called intensive margin) while the decrease of exports due to export stoppers (at the so-called extensive margin) was tiny. It is shown … that Idiosyncratic shocks to very large firms played a decisive role in shaping the export collapse. -- exports ; great …
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