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Self-Selection into Export Markets byBusiness Services Firms: Evidence fromFrance, Germany and the United Kingdom

Temouri, Yama; Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010

This study reports results from an empirical investigation of business services sector firmsthat (start to) export … and productivity hold in the yearsbefore the export start, which indicates self-selection into exporting of more …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360584

Self-Selection into export markets by business services firms: Evidence from France, Germany and the United Kingdom

Temouri, Yama; Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - 2010

This study reports results from an empirical investigation of business services sector firms that (start to) export … and productivity hold in the years before the export start, which indicates self-selection into exporting of more … relationship between profitability and starting to export is found. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274711

Do foreign experts increase the productivity of domestic firms?

Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj; Munch, Jakob R.; Skaksen, Jan Rose - 2011

While most countries welcome (and some even subsidise) high-skilled immigrants, there is very limited evidence of their importance for domestic firms. To guide our empirical analysis, we first set up a simple theoretical model to show how foreign experts may impact on the productivity and wages...

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Exporter performance in the German business services sector

Vogel, Alexander - In: The service industries journal 31 (2011) 7/8, pp. 1015-1031

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Determinants of the export behaviour of German business services companies

Eickelpasch, Alexander; Vogel, Alexander - In: The service industries journal 31 (2011) 3/4, pp. 513-526

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Do Foreign Experts Increase the Productivity of Domestic Firms?

Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj; Munch, Jakob R.; Skaksen, Jan Rose - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

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Offshoring and Labor Markets

Hummels, David; Munch, Jakob R.; Xiang, Chong - 2016

In this paper we survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wage, employment and displacement. We start with an overview of the measurement of offshoring, organizing our discussion around the three key elements of offshoring: that it involves intermediate inputs for...

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No Pain, No Gain: The Effects of Exports on Effort, Injury, and Illness

Hummels, David; Munch, Jakob R.; Xiang, Chong - 2016

Increased job effort can raise productivity and income but put workers at increased risk of illness and injury. We combine Danish data on individuals' health with Danish matched worker-firm data to understand how rising exports affect individual workers' effort, injury, and illness. We find that...

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Higher productivity in importing German manufacturing firms: self-selection, learning from importing, or both?

Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - 2008

-way traders do have the highest premia, followed by firms that only export, while firms that only import have the smallest …

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The Impact of Offshoring and Import Competition on Firm-Level Carbon Emissions

Leisner, Jonathan; Munch, Jakob R.; Nielsen, August Twile; … - 2023

We use Danish firm-level data to examine the causal link between carbon emissions, offshoring, and import competition. Offshoring reduces firms' emission intensity but increases their production. Import competition reduces firms' production without affecting their emission intensity. For...

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