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Exports, foreign direct investments and productivity : are services firms different?

Wagner, Joachim - 2011

This paper contributes to the literature on international firm activities and firm performance by providing the first evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly developed country. It uses unique new data from Germany...

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Making sense of Bolkestein-bashing : trade liberalization under segmented labor markets

Saint-Paul, Gilles (contributor) - 2005

Trade liberalization is often met with sharp opposition. Recent examples include the so-called "Bolkestein" directive, which allows service providers from a given EU member to temporarily work in another member country. One way to view such a reform is that it simply widens the range of goods...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002852797

The NAFTA tide: lifting the larger and better boats

Calderón Madrid, Angel (contributor); … - 2007

We use panel data on Mexican manufacturing plants to study the connection between plants’ responses to changes in the economic environment and their contributions to aggregate productivity growth in the period following the implementation of the North American Trade Agreement (NAFTA). In all...

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International job search : Mexicans in and out of the US

Rendón, Sílvio (contributor); … - 2007

It is argued that migration from Mexico to the US and its corresponding return migration are determined by … find that migration practically disappears if Mexico has American arrival rates while employed. Doubling migration costs …

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Migrant networks, migrant selection, and high school graduation in Mexico

Miranda, Alfonso (contributor) - 2007

in Mexico once unobserved heterogeneity is accounted for. Bivariate random effects dynamic probit models for cluster data …

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North-South trade liberalization and returns to skill in the south : the case of Mexico

Hazarika, Gautam (contributor); Otero, Rafael (contributor) - 2008

This study examines the effect of NAFTA, an instance of North-South trade liberalization, on returns to skill in Mexico …. Mexico is abundant in low-skill workers relative to the US and Canada, and so, by the Hecksher-Ohlin-Samuelson trade model …, NAFTA ought to have raised the relative earnings of low-skill workers, that is, lowered returns to skill in Mexico. Analysis …

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Adding rungs to the exporting ladder : plant-level exporting dynamics and total factor productivity growth

Voicu, Alexandru (contributor) - 2008

We use panel data on Mexican manufacturing plants to study the dynamics of plant-level exporting activity at both the extensive and the intensive margins and the connection between exporting dynamics and plant-level total factor productivity growth. We find that exporting activity has a ladder...