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Migration, knowledge diffusion and the comparative advantage of nations

Bahar, Dany; Rapoport, Hillel - 2016

we study the drivers of knowledge diffusion by looking at the dynamics of the export basket of countries, with particular … terms of ability to expand the export basket of countries, a migrant with college education or above is about ten times more …

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Migration and post-conflict reconstruction : the effect of returning refugees on export performance in the former Yugoslavia

Bahar, Dany; Özgüzel, Cem; Hauptmann, Andreas; … - 2019

During the early 1990s Germany offered temporary protection to over 600,000 Yugoslavian refugees fleeing war. By 2000, many had been repatriated. We exploit this natural experiment to investigate the role of migrants in post-conflict reconstruction in the former Yugoslavia, using exports as...

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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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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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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...

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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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Tracing the local impacts of exports on poverty and inequality in Mexico

Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; Vazquez, Emmanuel; … - 2020

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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How do immigrants promote exports? : networks, knowledge, diversity.

Orefice, Gianluca; Rapoport, Hillel; Santoni, Gianluca - 2022

How do immigrants promote exports? To answer this question we propose a unified empirical framework allowing to identify and disentangle the main mechanisms put forth in the literature: the role of networks in reducing bilateral transaction costs, and the productivity shifts arising from...

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