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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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customs data from Colombia, we exploit pre- determined variation across plants in sales export destination combined with …
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average incomes is driven by a rise in the supply of labor at the local level because municipalities with higher export growth …
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Manufacturing accounts for more than three-quarters of U.S. corporate patents. The competitive shock to this sector emanating from China's economic ascent could in theory either augment or stifle U.S. innovation. Using three decades of U.S. patents matched to corporate owners, we quantify how...
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find export status to be positively correlated with both product market power (markups) and market power consolidated on …
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present a simplified general equilibrium model inspired by Melitz (2003) with two sectors: one able to export and one "reserve … export expansion, this is not occurring at a large enough scale to be felt at the macro level. To seize the benefits of trade …, Egypt requires deeper business environment reforms to incentivize large export, labor-intensive sector growth and integrate …
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We employ employer-employee matched data from Denmark and utilize plausibly exogenous variation in the rise of import competition due to the dismantling of import quotas as China entered the World Trade Organization to show, first, that rising import competition has led to reduced employment in...
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We study the dynamic effects of export exposure over local labor markets in Indonesia. We develop an empirical strategy … responses are consistent with those expected from demand shocks in a spatial model. Export shocks unambiguously increase …-compositional effects, our estimates of district-level welfare suggest that export shocks induce an increase in welfare. …
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