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Imports as product and labor market discipline

Boulhol, Hervé (contributor); … - 2006

This paper tests the pro-competitive effect of trade in the product and labor markets of UK manufacturing sectors between 1988 and 2003 using a two-stage estimation procedure. In the first stage, we use data on 9820 firms from twenty manufacturing sectors to simultaneously estimate mark-up and...

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Do market pressures induce economic efficiency : the case of Slovenian manufacturing, 1994 - 2001

Orazem, Peter F. (contributor); Vodopivec, Milan (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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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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Foreign acquisition, plant survival, and employment growth

Bandick, Roger; Görg, Holger - 2009

This paper analyses the effect of foreign acquisition on survival probability and employment growth of target plant using data on Swedish manufacturing plants during the period 1993-2002. An improvement over previous studies is that we take into account firm level heterogeneity by separating the...

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Multinationals as stabilizers? : Economic crisis and plant employment growth

Álvarez, Roberto (contributor); Görg, Holger (contributor) - 2007

This paper examines the link between multinational enterprises and employment growth at the plant-level. We investigate in detail the comparative response of multinationals and domestic firms to an economic crisis, using the empirical setting of a well defined case of economic slowdown in Chile...

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Offshoring and firm performance : self-selection, effects on performance, or both?

Wagner, Joachim - 2009

This paper uses unique new data for German manufacturing enterprises from matched regular surveys and a special purpose survey to investigate the causal effect of relocation of activities to a foreign country on various dimensions of firm performance. Enterprises that relocated activities abroad...

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Should I stay or should I go? : A note on employment protection, domestic anchorage, and FDI

Dewit, Gerda (contributor); Görg, Holger (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Interest rate bands of inaction and play-hysteresis in domestic investment : evidence for the Euro area

Belke, Ansgar; Frenzel Baudisch, Coletta; Göcke, Matthias - 2019

The interest rate represents an important monetary policy tool to steer investment in order to reach price stability …. Therefore, implications of the exact form and magnitude of the interest rate-investment nexus for the European Central Bank … impact of changes in the interest rate on macroeconomic investment under certainty and under uncertainty to investigate …

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Social interactions and schooling decisions

Lalive, Rafael (contributor); … - 2006

school attendance among a sub-group of eligible children within small rural villages in Mexico. Results indicate that (i) the …

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The prostitute's allure : examining returns to beauty, productivity and discrimination

Arunachalam, Raj; Shah, Manisha - 2010

We estimate the earnings premium for beauty in an occupation where returns to physical attractiveness are likely to be important: commercial sex work. In the commercial sex market, perhaps more so than any other sector in the labor market, the beauty premium should be at the extreme due to the...

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