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Human capital and wages in exporting firms

Munch, Jakob Roland (contributor); … - 2006

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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Exports, imports and profitability : first evidence for manufacturing enterprises

Wagner, Joachim - 2011

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009308838

The China syndrome : local labor market effects of import competition in the United States

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2013

We analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition between 1990 and 2007 on U.S. local labor markets, exploiting cross-market variation in import exposure stemming from initial differences in industry specialization and instrumenting for U.S. imports using changes in Chinese imports by...

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Subsidies and exports in Germany : first evidence from enterprise panel data

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Wagner, Joachim - 2009

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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Foreign competition and domestic innovation : evidence from U.S. patents

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H.; … - 2019

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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Labor market imperfections, markups and productivity in multinationals and exporters

Dobbelaere, Sabien; Kiyota, Kōzō - 2017

find export status to be positively correlated with both product market power (markups) and market power consolidated on …

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Importing political polarization? : the electoral consequences of rising trade exposure

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H.; … - 2020

Has rising import competition contributed to the polarization of U.S. politics? Analyzing multiple measures of political expression and results of congressional and presidential elections spanning the period 2000 through 2016, we find strong though not definitive evidence of an ideological...

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Export take-offs and acceleration : unpacking cross-sector linkages in the evolution of comparative advantage

Bahar, Dany; Rosenow, Samuel; Stein, Ernesto; Wagner, … - 2018

The transition into non-traditional export activities attracts important policy and academic attention. Using … international trade data, we explore how alternative linkages relate to the take-off and acceleration of export industries … labor. Technology has a predictive power depending on the specification used. We consistently find, however, that export …

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International trade and job polarization : evidence at the worker level

Keller, Wolfgang; Utar, Hâle - 2023

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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