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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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The analysis of the effects of firm-level international trade on wages has so far focused on the role of exports, which are also typically treated as a composite good. However, we show in this paper that firm-level imports can actually be a wage determinant as important as exports. Furthermore,...
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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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both imports and exports, and iii) examine the impact of imports according to the country of origin. Looking at the export …
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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 adapt the heterogeneous firm trade models of Helpman, Melitz, and Rubinstein (2008) and Lawless (2010) to analyze extensive and intensive trade margins using state-level exports to foreign nations. Our theoretical analysis provides definitive predictions for the effects of changes in fixed...
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' incentives to export. The results indicate that the export wage premium is due to exporting firms both (1) paying a wage premium … document that the export wage premium is larger for workers with more export-related experience. This indicates that the … devaluation increased the demand for skills more useful for exporting, driving their relative price up. -- export wage premium …
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, little is known about the sources behind the gap: Is it because more productive (and/or higher paying) firms export, because … more productive workers select into the export sector, or is it because matches in the export sector are more productive … returns and thereby the exporter wage gap becomes a result of workers selecting into the export or non-export sector based on …
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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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