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Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation : Evidence from U.S. Patents
Autor, David H. - 2019
.S. patents matched to corporate owners, we quantify how foreign competition affects domestic innovation. Rising import exposure … sectoral patenting trends, we find that U.S. patent production declines in sectors facing greater import competition. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861314
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Exports, Imports and Firm Survival : First Evidence for Manufacturing Enterprises in Germany
Wagner, Joachim - 2011
This paper documents the relationship between firm survival and three types of international trade activities - exports, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from Germany, one of the leading actors on the world market for goods, that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120841
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Higher Productivity in Importing German Manufacturing Firms : Self-Selection, Learning from Importing, or Both?
Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - 2021
-way traders do have the highest premia, followed by firms that only export, while firms that only import have the smallest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324761
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Competitiveness at the Country-Sector Level : New Measures Based on Global Value Chains
Marczak, Martyna - 2018
We propose the so-called domestic "embodied unit labor costs" (EULC) at the country-sector level as a new cost-related basis for measures of international competitiveness. EULC take into account that a sector's labor costs constitute only a small share of its total cost which to a large extent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012919512
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Estimating Production Functions in Differentiated-Product Industries with Quantity Information and External Instruments
de Roux, Nicolás; Eslava, Marcela; Franco, Santiago; … - 2021
This paper develops a new method for estimating production-function parameters that can be applied in differentiated-product industries with endogenous quality and variety choice. We take advantage of data on physical quantities of outputs and inputs from the Colombian manufacturing survey,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013251551
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Subsidies and Exports in Germany : First Evidence from Enterprise Panel Data
Girma, Sourafel - 2009
We use newly available representative panel data for manufacturing enterprises in West and East Germany to investigate the link between production-related subsidies and exports. We document that only a small fraction of enterprises is subsidized, and that exports and subsidies are positively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764168
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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 …) whether the impact of import penetration is driven by implied efficiency effects. We use data from the manufacturing industry … that the impact of import penetration is not biased by efficiency effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912768
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Offshoring, Wages and Job Security of Temporary Workers
Görg, Holger - 2012
We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular attention to the question of whether workers on temporary contracts are affected differently than workers on permanent contracts. Data are taken from the German Socio-Economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099404
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Exports, Imports and Profitability : First Evidence for Manufacturing Enterprises
Wagner, Joachim - 2011
This paper documents for the first time the relationship between profitability and three types of international trade activities – exports, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from Germany, one of the leading actors on the world...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123600
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Offshoring and Job Stability : Evidence from Italian Manufacturing
Lo Turco, Alessia - 2012
We study the relationship between offshoring and job stability in Italy in the period 1995-2001 by using an administrative dataset on manufacturing workers. We find that the international fragmentation of production negatively affects job stability. Service offshoring and material purchases from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106953