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has statistically significant effects on the survival, employment, and sales of small low-performing firms. However, we …
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supply factors such as productivity gains, materialized after long-fought restructuring efforts during the lost decade …
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, if they enjoy a higher productivity, or if they benefit from foreign, domestic, or communication networks …
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supply factors such as productivity gains, materialized after long-fought restructuring efforts during the lost decade …
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The paper uses a large survey (GSOEP) to analyze the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It finds that new immigrant workers earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for immigrants from advanced countries,...
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This paper investigates the sensitivity of sectoral employment and wages in the United States to changes in foreign … and wage levels. This paper estimates the impact of changes in both import and export prices on employment and wages in … most sectors, changes in trade prices do not have significant effects on employment and wages, although they generally have …
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Using household level data for France from 1990 to 2000, we estimate a relationship between wages and unemployment … particularly large between 1996 and 2000 and undoubtedly contributed strongly to the exceptional employment performance during that …
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estimate employment for three skill categories of blue collar workers. Employment elasticities are uniformly higher in the east …, and for unskilled labor. The former result contradicts union claims that wages had little relevance for east German job …
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This paper investigates theoretically and empirically the heterogeneous response of exporters to real exchange rate fluctuations due to product quality. Our model shows that the elasticity of demand perceived by exporters decreases with a real depreciation and with quality, leading to more...
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