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We estimate the impact of international trade on wages using data for French manufacturing firms. We instrument firm-level trade flows with firm-specific instrumental variables based on world demand and supply shocks. Both export and offshoring shocks have a positive effect on wages. Exports...
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International trade, as a major factor of openness, has made an increasingly significant contribution to economic growth. Chinese international trade has experienced rapid expansion together with its dramatic economic growth which has made the country to target the world as its market. This...
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Rybczynski effect. This result suggests that capital accumulation led poor countries to diversify their industrial production …, while rich countries made their production more concentrated in highly capital-intensive industries. …
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The research explores the effect of industrialization on human capital formation. Exploiting exogenous regional … variations in the adoption of steam engines across France, the study establishes that, in contrast to conventional wisdom that … capital formation, generating broad increases in literacy rates and educational attainment. …
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) and highlighted the size of the brain loss toward Côte d'Ivoire and France. Burkina Faso shows a more severe brain drain … France. The subsequent empirical strategy consists in comparing the growth performance of an economy without migration to the … country (France) and failed when migration, as is the case for Burkina Faso, flows into Cote d'Ivoire the polar economy of the …
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We use the elements of a macroeconomic production function - physical capital, human capital, labor, and technology … preferences, societal norms, and institutions. Religion affects physical capital accumulation by influencing thrift and financial … development. It affects human capital through both religious and secular education. It affects population and labor by influencing …
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Differences in wages, employment, and capital between worker-owned and capitalist enterprises are computed from a …, employment, and capital equations largely corroborate the implications of the behavioral models of the two types of enterprise … capitalist and co-op enterprises. -- worker-owned firms ; capitalist firms ; wages ; employment ; capital …
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Using U.S. manufacturing data, Griliches (1969) found evidence suggesting that capital equipment was more substitutable … for unskilled than skilled labor. Griliches formulated this finding as the capital-skill complementarity hypothesis. The … purpose of this study is to determine whether the capital-skill complementarity framework holds for Ghana manufacturing plants …
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particular, capital-skill complementarity represents a source of relative skill-bias while SETI provides an absolute skill …
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