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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771056
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International specialization and the return to capital
Batista, Catia; Potin, Jacques - 2010
How does factor accumulation affect the pattern of international specialization and returns to capital? We provide a new integrated treatment to this question using a panel of 44 developing and developed countries over the period 1976-2000. We confirm the Heckscher-Ohlin prediction that, with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003933636
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Stages of diversification in a neoclassical world
Batista, Catia; Potin, Jacques - 2013
Recent research has documented a U-shaped industrial concentration curve over an economy's development path. How far can neoclassical trade theory take us in explaining this pattern? We estimate the production side of the Heckscher-Ohlin model using industry data on 44 developed and developing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010221543
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Trade and capital flows: substitutes or complements? : an empirical investigation
Belke, Ansgar; Domnick, Clemens - 2019
This paper examines the linkages between the trade of goods and financial assets. Do both flows behave as complements (implying a positive correlation) or as substitutes (negative correlation)? Although a classic topic in international macroeconomics, the empirical evidence has remained...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099470
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Offshoring and unemployment : the role of search frictions and labor mobility
Mitra, Devashish; Ranjan, Priya - 2009
In a two-sector, general-equilibrium model with labor-market search frictions, we find that wage increases and sectoral unemployment decreases upon offshoring in the presence of perfect intersectoral labor mobility. If, as a result, labor moves to the sector with the lower (or equal) vacancy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003831894
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Firms and labor in times of violence : evidence from the Mexican drug war
Utar, Hâle - 2022
This paper examines how firms in an emerging economy are affected by violence due to drug trafficking. Employing rich longitudinal plant-level data covering all of Mexico from 2005–2010, and using an instrumental variable strategy that exploits plausibly exogenous spatiotemporal variation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013170284
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Why are Africa's female entrepreneurs not playing the export game? : evidence from Ghana
Ackah, Charles; Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife; Hornok, … - 2020
We explore the export performance of Africa's underperforming female entrepreneurs, using the Ghanaian ISSER-IGC panel, a comprehensive dataset of manufacturing firms for 2011-2015. Uniquely, the data provides information about the severity of key business constraints, across both male and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012296187
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Labor market imperfections, markups and productivity in multinationals and exporters
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Kiyota, Kōzō - 2017
-setting power) and (iii) revenue productivity. We apply this framework to analyze whether the pricing behavior of firms in product …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776033
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Higher productivity in importing German manufacturing firms : self-selection, learning from importing, or both?
Vogel, Alexander (contributor); Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2008
document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the … systematically by testing for self-selection of more productive firms into importing, and for productivity-enhancing effects of … imports ('learning-by-importing'). We find a positive link between importing and productivity. From an empirical model with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003779041
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Productivity premia for German manufacturing firms exporting to the Euro-area and beyond : first evidence from robust fixed effects estimations
Verardi, Vincenzo; Wagner, Joachim - 2010
estimates of the productivity premium of German firms exporting to the Euro-zone and beyond, controlling for unobserved time … observations, or outliers. The paper shows that estimates of the exporter productivity premium by destination are driven by a small … share of outliers. Using a "clean" sample without outliers the estimated productivity premium of firms that export to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003968468