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Globalization, productivity growth, and labor compensation
Dreger, Christian; Fourné, Marius; Holtemöller, Oliver - 2023
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...
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Working conditions, transparency, and compliance in global value chains : evidence from Better Work Jordan
Robertson, Raymond - 2019
This paper estimates how compliance with national labor law and international labor standards within Jordan's garment exporting factories changed after the implementation of a transparency program that made compliance assessments publicly available. The estimation employs data from Better Work...
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Wage differences according to workers' origin: the role of working more upstream in GVCs
Fays, Valentine; Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, François - 2021
This paper is the first to investigate the role of firm-level upstreamness (i.e. the number of steps before the production of a firm meets final demand) in explaining wage differences according to workers' origin. Using unique linked employer-employee data relative to the Belgian manufacturing...
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Offshoring and firm performance : self-selection, effects on performance, or both?
Wagner, Joachim - 2009
This paper uses unique new data for German manufacturing enterprises from matched regular surveys and a special purpose survey to investigate the causal effect of relocation of activities to a foreign country on various dimensions of firm performance. Enterprises that relocated activities abroad...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003923926
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Productivity, wages and profits : does firms' position in the value chain matter?
Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, François; Vermeylen, Guillaume; … - 2019
This paper is the first to estimate the impact of a direct measure of firm-level upstreamness on productivity, wage costs and profits (i.e. productivity-wage gaps). To do so, we merged detailed Belgian linked panel data, covering all years from 2002 to 2010, to a unique data set developed by...
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Upstreamness, wages and gender : equal benefits for all?
Gagliardi, Nicola; Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, François - 2019
This paper provides first evidence on the impact of a direct measure of firm-level upstreamness (i.e. the steps before the production of a firm meets final demand) on workers' wages. It also investigates whether results vary along the earnings distribution and by gender. Findings, based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012027612
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Competitiveness at the country-sector level : new measures based on global value chains
Marczak, Martyna; Beissinger, Thomas - 2018
We propose the so-called domestic "embodied unit labor costs" (EULC) at the country-sector level as a new cost-related basis for measures of international competitiveness. EULC take into account that a sector's labor costs constitute only a small share of its total cost which to a large extent...
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The role of global value chains for worker tasks and wage inequality
Lewandowski, Piotr; Madoń, Karol; Winkler, Deborah - 2023
This paper studies the relationship between global value chain (GVC) participation, worker-level routine task intensity, and wage inequality within countries. Using unique survey data from 38 countries, we find that higher GVC participation is associated with more routine-intensive work,...
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The effect of credit guarantees on R&D investment of SMEs in Korea
Heshmati, Almas - 2013
Korean government has invested significant amount of resources through credit guarantee funds to promote SMEs survival, performance and R&D investment. This study attempts to identify determinants of provision of credit guarantees and estimate their effects on firms R&D expenditures. The...
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What role did management practices play in SME growth post-recession?
Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - 2016
, little is known about the role played by management practices in SME growth since recession. We contribute to the literature … on SME growth by analysing longitudinal administrative data on firms' employment and turnover, taken from the UK … turnover, and a decline in closure probabilities, over the period 2011-2014. The findings suggest SME investment in off …
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