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International Import Competition and the Decision to Migrate : Evidence from Mexico
Majlesi, Kaveh - 2018
competition are more likely to migrate to other municipalities within Mexico, while a negative effect is found on the decision to …
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The Effects of Local Market Concentration and International Competition on Firm Productivity : Evidence from Mexico
Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos - 2020
Although market concentration is one of the main impediments to productivity growth globally, data constraints have limited its analysis to developed countries or cross-country studies based on definitions of market concentration across nations and industries. This paper takes advantage of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012836579
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Capital Prices and Eurozone Competitiveness Differentials
Askenazy, Philippe - 2013
Competitiveness differentials are blamed for the instability of the Eurozone. Most of the analyses focus on labour costs or labour-market institutions. This paper explores an additional source of differentials in competitiveness: land and building prices. European countries, especially France,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086230
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Firm Dynamics and Real Exchange Rate Fluctuations : Does Trade Openness Matter? Evidence from Mexico’s Manufacturing Sector
Fuentes, Miguel - 2009
-level data and compare the behavior of employment, production and investment after two big real exchange rate shocks: the first … exporting firms exhibited higher growth rates of employment, sales, and investment vis-á-vis non-exporters. We confirm our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155309
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Trade, Quality Upgrading and Wage Inequality in the Mexican Manufacturing Sector
Verhoogen, Eric A. - 2021
heterogeneous plants and quality-differentiated goods, only the most productive plants in a country like Mexico enter the export …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316928
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Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation : Evidence from U.S. Patents
Autor, David H. - 2019
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861314
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Real Unit Labour Costs in Eurozone Countries : Drivers and Clusters
Ordóñez Monfort, Javier - 2014
We examine the trajectories of the real unit labour costs (RULCs) in a selection of Eurozone economies. Strong asymmetries in the convergence process of the RULCs and its components – real wages, capital intensity, and technology – are uncovered through decomposition and cluster analyses. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051805
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Import Competition and the Great U.S. Employment Sag of the 2000s
Acemoglu, Daron - 2015
Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being a prime contributor to the slump. We estimate that...
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Foreign Competition and Executive Compensation in the Manufacturing Industry : A Comparison between Germany and the U.S
Dyballa, Katharina - 2018
In this study we use import penetration as a proxy for foreign competition in order to empirically analyze (1) the impact of foreign competition on managerial compensation, (2) differences in the impact between Germany and the U.S. and (3) whether the impact of import penetration is driven by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912768
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Intangible Investment and Technical Efficiency : The Case of Software-Intensive Manufacturing Firms in Turkey
Findik, Derya - 2015
This chapter analyzes the effect of intangible investment on firm efficiency with an emphasis on its software component … differentials in their firm efficiency. The results show that the effect of software investment on firm efficiency is larger in high … technology firms, the effect of the software investment is smaller than the effect of research and development personnel …
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