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This paper studies the link between a firm's education level, export performance and wages of its workers. We argue that firms may escape intense competition in international markets by using high skilled workers to differentiate their products. This story is consistent with our empirical...
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activities – exports, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from … advantages of trading firms are eaten up by extra costs related to selling and buying on foreign markets. -- exports ; imports …
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the link between production-related subsidies and exports. We document that only a small fraction of enterprises is … subsidized, and that exports and subsidies are positively related. Using a matching approach to investigate the causal effect of … an impact of subsidies on the share of exports in total sales in West Germany but no evidence in East Germany …
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Manufacturing accounts for more than three-quarters of U.S. corporate patents. The competitive shock to this sector emanating from China's economic ascent could in theory either augment or stifle U.S. innovation. Using three decades of U.S. patents matched to corporate owners, we quantify how...
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This paper examines the links between the internationalization mode of firms and market imperfections in product and labor markets. We develop a framework for modelling heterogeneity across firms in terms of (i) product market power (price-cost markups), (ii) labor market imperfections (workers'...
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This paper studies technology adoption in a cluster of soccer-ball producers in Sialkot, Pakistan. We invented a new cutting technology that reduces waste of the primary raw material and gave the technology to a random subset of producers. Despite the arguably unambiguous net benefits of the...
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regularity conditions and assuming a Cobb Douglas production function, it is shown that (log) oil exports enter the long run … money balances, inflation, real exchange rate, oil exports, and foreign real output, the paper finds clear evidence for two … acting as a proxy for the (missing) market interest rate. Real output in the long run is shaped by oil exports through their …
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The analysis of the effects of firm-level international trade on wages has so far focused on the role of exports, which … wage determinant as important as exports. Furthermore, we also find significant differences in the relationship between … trade and wages across types of products. In particular, firms that increase their exports (imports) of high- (intermediate …
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on bilateral exports. …
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This study reports results from an empirical investigation of business services sector firms that (start to) export, comparing exporters to firms that serve the national market only. We estimate identically specified empirical models using comparable enterprise level data from France, Germany,...
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