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Jobless growth through creative destruction: Ireland's industrial development path 1972 - 2003
Li, Qi (contributor); Walsh, Patrick Paul (contributor);  … - 2007
We document the nature of structural changes in employment to understand "jobless" growth in Irish Manufacturing in the aftermath of EEC/EU membership, 1972-2003. By 1972, forty years of protectionism and fifteen years of export promotion induced the coexistence of large exporting plants with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003646690
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The rise of the East and the Far East : German labor markets and trade integration
Dauth, Wolfgang; Findeisen, Sebastian; Südekum, Jens - 2012
We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and "the East" - China and Eastern Europe - in the period 1988-2008 on German local labor markets. Using detailed administrative data, we exploit the cross-regional variation in initial industry structures and use trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009558995
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An empirical growth model for major oil exporters
Esfahani, Hadi Salehi; Mohaddes, Kamiar; Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2012
-run output equation with a coefficient equal to the share of capital (α). The long-run theory is tested using quarterly data on … results support the long-run theory. The existence of long-run relations between real output, foreign output and real oil … steadily over the past three decades, the theory suggests that the effect of oil income on the economy's steady state growth …
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Export-led growth after COVID-19: the case of Portugal
Naudé, Wim; Cameron, Martin - 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted trade and global value chains. Small open economies such as Portugal are particularly vulnerable. In this paper we consider the impact of the pandemic on the country's exports, arguing that an export-led recovery is possible. The challenge is to identify...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012316060
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The role of "skill enhancing trade" in Brazil : some evidence from microdata
Araújo, Bruno César Pino Oliveira de; Bogliacino, … - 2009
Brazil was characterised by a marked process of trade liberalisation in the 1990s, resulting in a dramatic increase in the volumes of exports and imports since the year 2000. Over the same period, the relative demand for skilled labour has increased substantially. To investigate whether these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003860437
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Exports, imports and wages : evidence from matched firm-worker-product panels
Martins, Pedro S.; Opromolla, Luca David - 2009
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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003931298
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Productivity and size of the export market : evidence for West and East German plants, 2004
Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2007
Using unique recently released nationally representative high-quality data at the plant level, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between productivity and size of the export market for Germany, a leading actor on the world market for manufactured goods. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003539184
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Exports, imports and firm survival : first evidence for manufacturing enterprises in Germany
Wagner, Joachim - 2011
This paper documents the relationship between firm survival 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 market for goods, that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009379657
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The microstructure of the great export collapse in German manufacturing industries, 2008/2009
Wagner, Joachim - 2012
This paper uses comprehensive high-quality panel data from official statistics for exporting enterprises to investigate the micro-structure of the recent export collapse in manufacturing industries in Germany during the crisis of 2008/2009. Almost all of the decline in exports was due to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009533357
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Trade and manufacturing jobs in Germany
Dauth, Wolfgang; Findeisen, Sebastian; Südekum, Jens - 2017
The German economy exhibits rising service and declining manufacturing employment. But this decline is much sharper in import-competing than in export-oriented branches. We first document the individual-level job transitions behind those trends. They are not driven by manufacturing workers who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596120