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Trade, Reallocations and Productivity: A Bridge between Theory and Data in Öresund
Åkerman, Anders - 2009
is applied using both geographic and sectoral variation in how much the bridge affected export patterns and productivity … to export and therefore expand their output share. The two largest sectors in Malmö are wholesale trade and manufacturing …
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International Trade and Labor Market Integration of Immigrants
Lodefalk, Magnus; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Tang, Aili - 2020
We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate substantially less than natives in the labor market. However, trading with a foreign country is expected to increase the demand for immigrants from that country. By hiring...
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Globalization, Recruitments, and Job Mobility
Davidson, Carl; Heyman, Fredrik; Matusz, Steven J.; … - 2020
Previous research indicates that exporting firms are willing to pay a premium to poach workers from other exporting firms if experience working for an internationally engaged firm reduces trade costs. Since international experience is less valuable to non-exporters, we would expect to see...
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Bargaining for trade: When exporting becomes detrimental for female wages
Halvarsson, Daniel; Lark, Olga; Tingvall, Patrik; … - 2022
. Our key finding is that export of goods that are intensive in interpersonal contacts widens the gender wage gap. The …
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Globalization and the jobs ladder
Davidson, Carl; Heyman, Fredrik; Matusz, Steven J.; … - 2018
Globalization might affect the mix of jobs available in an economy and the rate at which workers gain skills. We develop a model in which firms differ in terms of productivity and skills and use the model to examine how globalization affects the wage distribution and the career path of workers...
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Cross-Industry Heterogeneity in Export Participation : The Role of Scale Economies in R&D
Ferguson, Shon M. - 2013
This paper shows that the R&D intensity of an industry plays an important role in determining international trade patterns via its effect on scale economies. I first develop a model of trade with heterogeneous firms where firms compete with each other by spending on fixed product development...
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Subsidizing Away Exports? A Note on R&D-Policy Towards Multinational Firms
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan - 2020
evidence of such relocation. R&D subsidies rather tend to en courage export production at the expense of foreign production …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857478
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How to Combine High Sunk Costs of Exporting and Low Export Survival
Gullstrand, Joakim - 2014
different, depending on whether the export decision refers to a core or a peripheral market, it is plausible that while firms …. Second, using firm-product-destination-specific export data for all firms in the Swedish food chain for the period 1997 … that firms will indeed tend to stay longer in their core markets, while export decisions regarding peripheral markets are …
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How should research performance be measured? A study of Swedish economists
Henrekson, Magnus; Waldenström, Daniel - 2010
Billions of dollars are allocated every year to university research. Increased specialisation and international integration of research and researchers has sharply raised the need for comparisons of performance across fields, institutions and individual researchers. However, there is still no...
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Seasonal social preferences
Ekström, Mathias - 2017
Christmas is when people are expected to act selflessly for the well-being of others, but are people actually more altruistic at this time of the year? Responding to this question poses a challenge because of the confounding factors of charitable tax breaks, reciprocity motives, direct social...
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