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Self-Selection into export markets by business services firms : evidence from France, Germany and the United Kingdom

Temouri, Yama; Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - 2010

This study reports results from an empirical investigation of business services sector firms that (start to) export … and productivity hold in the years before the export start, which indicates self-selection into exporting of more … relationship between profitability and starting to export is found. …

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Brexit had no measurable effect on Irish exporters

Elsner, Benjamin; Flaherty, Eoin T.; Haller, Stefanie - 2024

and sales compared to more exposed firms. We do not find significant differences for export volumes to the UK or elsewhere …

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Modelling volatilities and conditional correlations in futures markets with a multivariate t distribution

Pesaran, Bahram (contributor); … - 2007

This paper considers a multivariate t version of the Gaussian dynamic conditional correlation (DCC) model proposed by Engle (2002), and suggests the use of devolatized returns computed as returns standardized by realized volatilities rather than by GARCH type volatility estimates. The t-DCC...

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Returning to work from injury : longitudinal evidence on employment and earnings

Crichton, Sarah (contributor); Stillman, Steven (contributor) - 2005

New Zealand has a unique accident insurance system that pays the direct costs of all accidental injuries and compensates workers 80% of their earnings for any time post-injury that they are unable to work. Statistics New Zealand's Linked Employer-Employee Database contains monthly information on...

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How important is selection? : Experimental vs. non-experimental measures of the income gains from migration

McKenzie, David J. (contributor); … - 2006

Measuring the gain in income from migration is complicated by non-random selection of migrants from the general population, making it hard to obtain an appropriate comparison group of non-migrants. This paper uses a migrant lottery to overcome this problem, providing an experimental measure of...

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The impacts of international migration on remaining household members : omnibus results from a migration lottery program

Gibson, John K.; McKenzie, David J.; Stillman, Steven - 2009

The impacts of international migration on development in the sending countries, and especially the effects on remaining household members, are increasingly studied. However, comparisons of households in developing countries with and without migrants are complicated by a double-selectivity...

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The economic consequences of "Brain Drain" of the best and brightest : microeconomic evidence from five countries

Gibson, John K.; McKenzie, David J. - 2010

Brain drain has long been a common concern for migrant-sending countries, particularly for small countries where high-skilled emigration rates are highest. However, while economic theory suggests a number of possible benefits, in addition to costs, from skilled emigration, the evidence base on...

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The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century

Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010

Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of countries. Most of these studies have focused on the national experience of individual countries, but we can also learn from cross-country comparisons. Comparative analysis is...

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The importance of heterogeneity when examining immigrant education-occupation mismatch : evidence from New Zealand

Poot, Jacques; Stillman, Steven - 2010

Many immigrants are overqualified in their first job after arrival in the host country. Education-occupation mismatch can affect the economic integration of immigrants and the returns to education and experience. The extent of this problem has been measured in recent years by means of micro...

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Natural experiment evidence on the effect of migration on blood pressure and hypertension

Gibson, John K.; Stillman, Steven; McKenzie, David J.; … - 2010

Over 200 million people live outside their country of birth and experience large gains in material well-being by moving to where wages are higher. But the effect of this migration on health is less clear and existing evidence is ambiguous because of the potential for selfselection bias. In this...

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