Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 476
Cover Image
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119546
Cover Image
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013403718
Cover Image
Offshoring and Firm Performance : Self-Selection, Effects on Performance, or Both?
Wagner, Joachim - 2009
This paper uses unique new data for German manufacturing enterprises from matched regular surveys and a special purpose survey to investigate the causal effect of relocation of activities to a foreign country on various dimensions of firm performance. Enterprises that relocated activities abroad...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153306
Cover Image
Do Labour Market Institutions Matter? Micro-Level Wage Effects of International Outsourcing in Three European Countries
Geishecker, Ingo - 2008
This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark. To do so we use individual level data sets for the three countries and construct comparable measures of outsourcing at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773080
Cover Image
Job Losses, Outsourcing and Relocation : Empirical Evidence Using Microdata
Artis, Manuel - 2015
Using microdata, we analyse the determinants of firm relocation and outsourcing decisions and their effects on firms' employment decisions. The results for a sample of 32 countries show that both strategies have been more intense in the EU-15 countries than in the rest and that, in some cases,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012750337
Cover Image
Services, Offshoring and Wages : Evidence from Micro Data
Görg, Holger; Geishecker, Ingo - 2008
This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry information on offshoring. Our results show that services offshoring affects the real wage of low and medium skilled individuals negatively. By contrast, skilled workers benefit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014216489
Cover Image
Services Offshoring and Wages : Evidence from Micro Data
Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - 2021
This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry information on offshoring. Our results show that services offshoring affects the real wage of low and medium skilled individuals negatively. By contrast, skilled workers benefit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325054
Cover Image
Spatial Frictions
Behrens, Kristian - 2013
The world is replete with spatial frictions. Shipping goods across cities entails trade frictions. Commuting within cities causes urban frictions. How important are these frictions in shaping the spatial economy? We develop and quantify a novel framework to address this question at three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087411
Cover Image
The Empirics of Agglomeration Economies
Combes, Pierre-Philippe - 2014
We propose an integrated framework to discuss the empirical literature on the local determinants of agglomeration effects. We start by presenting the theoretical mechanisms that ground individual and aggregate empirical specifications. We gradually introduce static effects, dynamic effects, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046226
Cover Image
Towards a Unifying Approach of the 'New Economic Geography'
Pflüger, Michael; Suedekum, Jens - 2021
Models of the new economic geography share a number of common conclusions, but also exhibit notable differences, in particular with respect to the shape of the location pattern and the efficiency of the market equilibrium. This reflects the fact that these models rely heavily on specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317473