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Exports, Foreign Direct Investments and Productivity : Are Services Firms Different?

Wagner, Joachim - 2011

is evidence that firms with fdi are less productive than firms that export …

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Isolating the Network Effect of Immigrants on Trade

Aleksynska, Mariya - 2012

those contributing to export by the largest margin. Business network effects seem particularly important in stimulating …

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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...

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Help in a Foreign Land : Internationalized Banks and Firms' Export

Brancati, Emanuele - 2022

The lack of information is a relevant obstacle to the export activity of small and medium enterprises. This paper … analyzes whether banks can support firms’ export by reducing informational asymmetries about foreign markets. We exploit a … exogenous to firms’ export decisions by relying on preexisting lending relationships and exploiting the acquisition of a firm …

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Comparing Real Wage Rates

Ashenfelter, Orley - 2012

A real wage rate is a nominal wage rate divided by the price of a good and is a transparent measure of how much of the good an hour of work buys. It provides an important indicator of the living standards of workers, and also of the productivity of workers. In this paper I set out the conceptual...

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FDI and Wages : Evidence from Firm-Level and Linked Employer-Employee Data in Hungary, 1986-2008

Earle, John S. - 2013

We estimate the wage effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) with universal firm-level and linked employer-employee panel data containing 4,926 foreign acquisitions in Hungary. Matching on pre-acquisition data and controlling for fixed effects for firms and detailed worker groups, we find...

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Wage Gains from Foreign Ownership : Evidence from Linked Employer–Employee Data

Köll?, János - 2020

We compare wages in multinational enterprises (MNEs) versus domestic firms, the earnings of domestic firm workers with past, future and no MNE experience, and estimate how the presence of ex-MNE peers affects the earnings of domestic firm employees. The analysis relies on monthly panel data...

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Foreign Ownership, Employment and Wages in Brazil : Evidence from Acquisitions, Divestments and Job Movers

Martins, Pedro S. - 2008

How much do developing countries benefit from foreign investment? We contribute to this question by comparing the employment and wage practices of foreign and domestic firms in Brazil, using detailed matched firm-worker panel data. In order to control for unobserved worker differences, we...

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Innovation, Wages, and Polarization in China

Fleisher, Belton M. - 2018

Using data from CHIPS 1995-2013, we find polarization of employment from middle-income Skilled jobs to work in the Unskilled and Self-Employment job categories. This redistribution of employment is consistent with the automation of routine noncognitive tasks in the skilled sector as analyzed in...

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Rise of the Machines : The Effects of Labor-Saving Innovations on Jobs and Wages

Graetz, Georg - 2015

How do firms respond to technological advances that facilitate the automation of tasks? Which tasks will they automate, and what types of worker will be replaced as a result? We present a model that distinguishes between a task's engineering complexity and its training requirements. When two...

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