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regularity conditions and assuming a Cobb Douglas production function, it is shown that (log) oil exports enter the long run …
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Wage inequality has risen in many countries over recent decades. At the same time, production has become increasingly …
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We test the hypothesis that local government officials in jurisdictions that have higher local sales taxes are more likely to use fiscal zoning to attract retailing. We find that total retail employment is not significantly affected by local sales tax rates, but employment in big box and anchor...
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both imports and exports, and iii) examine the impact of imports according to the country of origin. Looking at the export … of origin. However, the country of origin appears to matter quite a lot. Indeed, the detrimental effect of imports on …
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, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from Germany, one of the … imports and two-way trading for firm survival in a highly developed country. Descriptive statistics and regression analysis … between firm survival on the one hand and imports and two-way trading on the other hand, while exporting alone does not play a …
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We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and "the East" – China and Eastern Europe – in the period 1988-2008 on German local labor markets. Using detailed administrative data, we exploit the cross-regional variation in initial industry structures and use...
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This paper explores the relationship between openness to trade, immigration, and income per person across countries. To address endogeneity concerns we extend the instrumental-variables strategy introduced by Frankel and Romer (1999). We build predictors of openness to immigration and to trade...
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instrumenting for U.S. imports using changes in Chinese imports by other high-income countries. Rising imports cause higher …
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We analyze the effects of the increase in China's import competition on Mexican domestic and international migration. We exploit the variation in exposure to competition from China, following its accession to the WTO in 2001, across Mexican municipalities and estimate the effect of international...
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are also typically treated as a composite good. However, we show in this paper that firm-level imports can actually be a … trade and wages across types of products. In particular, firms that increase their exports (imports) of high- (intermediate …
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