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Compulsory schooling reforms, education and mortality in twentieth century Europe
Gathmann, Christina; Jürges, Hendrik; Reinhold, Steffen - 2012
mortality reductions. Using data from 19 compulsory schooling reforms implemented in Europe during the twentieth century, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282359
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Examining the Impact of Macro-Economic Conditions on Income Inequality
Jäntti, Markus; Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2001
This paper proposes a new approach for analyzing the relationship between macroeconomic factors and the income distribution. The conventional method of analysis is regression of summary inequality indices on variables such as the unemployment and inflation rates. Building on the lessons from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262571
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Exponent of cross-sectional dependence: Estimation and inference
Bailey, Natalia; Kapetanios, George; Pesaran, Hashem - 2012
An important issue in the analysis of cross-sectional dependence which has received renewed interest in the past few years is the need for a better understanding of the extent and nature of such cross dependencies. In this paper we focus on measures of cross-sectional dependence and how such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282124
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The Pro-Trade Effect of Immigration on American Exports During the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Dunlevy, James A.; Hutchinson, William K. - 2001
looking to history. We show that immigration, primarily from Europe between 1870 and 1910, had an important pro-trade effect … use a modified gravity model to examine the migrant stock-export relationship and find that United States exports to a … the effect varied across ?Old? Europe, ?New? Europe, and non-Europe groupings of the trading partner countries. Exports …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262581
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Exports, imports and wages: evidence from matched firm-worker-product panels
Martins, Pedro Silva; Opromolla, Luca David - 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/10010275836
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Wage structure effects of international trade: Evidence from a small open economy
Du Caju, Philip; Rycx, Francois; Tojerow, Ilan - 2011
both imports and exports, and iii) examine the impact of imports according to the country of origin. Looking at the export …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278541
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Why ex(im)porters pay more: Evidence from matched firm-worker panels
Martins, Pedro S.; Opromolla, Luca David - 2011
import as well as the export activity of the firm. These two innovations allow us to avoid large biases that characterized … recent theories that aim at explaining participation both in export and import markets and at including non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280654
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Average wage, qualification of the workforce and export performance in German enterprises: Evidence from KombiFiD data
Wagner, Joachim - 2012
workforce sheds new light on the role of highly qualified employees for success on export markets that is not revealed by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282156
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Exports and wages: Rent sharing, workforce composition or returns to skills?
Macis, Mario; Schivardi, Fabiano - 2012
' incentives to export. The results indicate that the export wage premium is due to exporting firms both (1) paying a wage premium … document that the export wage premium is larger for workers with more export-related experience. This indicates that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282466
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Are Wages in Southern Europe More Flexible? : The Effects of Cohort Size on European Earnings
Brunello, Giorgio; Lauer, Charlotte - 2004
study how cohort size has affected real earnings in Europe. When we pool the data of all countries, we find that cohort size …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262046