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We analyse how changes in international trade integration affect productivity and the functional income distribution …. To account for endogeneity, we construct a leave-out measure for international trade integration for country …-industry pairs using international input-output tables. First, we corroborate on the country-industry level that international trade …
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We present evidence about the role of rent sharing in fostering the interdependence of labour markets around the world …
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We investigate whether firms' "global engagement", either in the form of exporting or opening up affiliates abroad, is related to the change in their management performance. Using new and unique data from a recent large scale firm survey of management practices in Germany, we calculate...
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international taxation - on cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A) involving large multinational enterprises (MNEs). First, the …
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In this paper, we investigate whether gender norms and institutions act as a constraint to the performance of female businesses. We exploit novel and unique micro data on start-ups in Denmark, which we combine with information on individual-level characteristics of the entrepreneur as main...
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roles of world prices of skills and country proximity. Our empirical results are consistent with the view that these factors … immigration ; globalization …
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Heterogeneous firms are at the heart of both the New New International Trade Theory and the Micro-econometrics of … International Firm Activities. One important aim of microeconometric studies is to uncover stylized facts that hold over space and …-econometrics of international firm activities do we consider as convincing? Based on my own experience from the last twenty years I …
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This paper studies economic effects of the gender composition of corporate boards, employing a new and unique longitudinal dataset of virtually all Russian companies whose shares were traded on the national stock market between 1998 and 2014. Using multiple identification approaches, alternative...
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In this paper we investigate the relationship between females among the first hires of start-up companies and business success. Our results show that firms with female first hires have a higher share of female workers at the end of the first year after entry. Further, we find that firms with...
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A growing number of studies find linkages between workforce diversity and business performance, but key aspects of this relationship remain unclear. First, within the firm, the role of 'top team' demography on firm outcomes is surprisingly little understood. Second, urban location may amplify...
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