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Productivity and Size of the Export Market : Evidence for West and East German Plants, 2004
Wagner, Joachim - 2021
first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between productivity and size of the export market for Germany, a leading … more productive than firms that sell their products in Germany only, but less productive than firms that export to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317178
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The Rise of the East and the Far East : German Labor Markets and Trade Integration
Dauth, Wolfgang - 2012
We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and "the East" – China and Eastern Europe … sector in Germany. We also conduct our analysis at the individual worker level, and find that trade had a stabilizing overall …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104067
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Intra-Industry Adjustment to Import Competition : Theory and Application to the German Clothing Industry
Raff, Horst - 2009
This paper uses an oligopoly model with heterogeneous firms to examine how an industry adjusts to rising import competition. The model predicts that in the short run the least efficient firms in the industry become inactive, surviving firms face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155562
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Foreign Competition and Executive Compensation in the Manufacturing Industry : A Comparison between Germany and the U.S
Dyballa, Katharina - 2018
impact of foreign competition on managerial compensation, (2) differences in the impact between Germany and the U.S. and (3 … covering the period from 1984-2010 for Germany respectively 1992-2011 for the U.S. and apply system GMM in order to solve … Germany. A differentiation between imported intermediates (efficient sourcing strategy) and final inputs (competition) reveals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912768
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Exports, Imports and Wages : Evidence from Matched Firm-Worker-Product Panels
Martins, Pedro S. - 2009
The analysis of the effects of firm-level international trade on wages has so far focused on the role of exports, which are also typically treated as a composite good. However, we show in this paper that firm-level imports can actually be a wage determinant as important as exports. Furthermore,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153015
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The Role of 'Skill Enhancing Trade' in Brazil : Some Evidence from Microdata
Araujo, Bruno - 2009
Brazil was characterised by a marked process of trade liberalisation in the 1990s, resulting in a dramatic increase in the volumes of exports and imports since the year 2000. Over the same period, the relative demand for skilled labour has increased substantially. To investigate whether these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158679
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Rethinking Specialisation and the Sexual Division of Labour in the 21st Century
Siminski, Peter - 2020
This paper aims to shed new light on explanations for the sexual division of labour, within a broader examination of within-household specialisation. We propose a set of indices which we believe are the first direct within-couple measures of specialisation. We use these to present a rich...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840995
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China's 'Great Migration' : The Impact of the Reduction in Trade Policy Uncertainty
Facchini, Giovanni - 2018
We analyze the effect of China's integration into the world economy on workers in the country and show that one important channel of impact has been internal migration. Specifically, we study the changes in internal migration rates triggered by the reduction in trade policy uncertainty faced by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012929088
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International Specialization and the Return to Capital
Batista, Catia - 2010
How does factor accumulation affect the pattern of international specialization and returns to capital? We provide a new integrated treatment to this question using a panel of 44 developing and developed countries over the period 1976-2000. We confirm the Heckscher-Ohlin prediction that, with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148352
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Product Market Integration and Labour Markets : Aggregate Gains at the Cost of More Inequality?
Andersen, Torben M.; Sorensen, Allan - 2021
Important labour market consequences of globalization may arise via product market integration which affects the room for wage negotiations and generates job creation and destruction through structural changes. We find in a Ricardian trade model that aggregate increases in wages and employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317238