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Intra-industry adjustment to import competition: theory and application to the German clothing industry

Raff, Horst; Wagner, Joachim - 2009

face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the average productivity of survivors increases. These pro …

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The quality-complementarity hypothesis: theory and evidence from Colombia

Kugler, Maurice; Verhoogen, Eric A. - 2009

, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this …

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Consumers and the brain drain: product design and the gains from emigration

Kuhn, Peter; McAusland, Carol - 2008

We consider the welfare effects of skilled worker emigration in a context where skilled labor plays a role in product design. We show such emigration can benefit the residents left behind, even when consumers' tastes exhibit a form of home bias. This is because emigration improves the design of...

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Strikes, Scabs and Tread Separations: Labor Strife and the Production of Defective Bridgestone/Firestone Tires

Krueger, Alan B.; Mas, Alexandre - 2003

This paper provides a case study of the effect of labor relations on product quality. We consider whether a long, contentious strike and the hiring of replacement workers at Bridgestone/Firestone?s Decatur plant in the mid-1990s contributed to the production of defective tires. Using several...

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Welfare Policies, Labour Taxation and International Integration

Andersen, Torben M. - 2001

How will international integration affect welfare policies? This paper considers the possibilities of financing public sector activities (public consumption and social security expenses) by general (wage) taxation in an economy which becomes more integrated in international product markets. Even...

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Much ado about nothing? Do domestic firms really benefit from foreign direct investment?

Görg, Holger; Greenaway, David - 2003

productivity, wages and exports spillovers in developing, developed and transitional economies. Although theory can identify a …

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Productivity, welfare and reallocation: theory and firm-level evidence

Basu, Susanto; Pascali, Luigi; Schiantarelli, Fabio; … - 2009

values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility …

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Financial constraints and innovation: why poor countries don't catch up

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Schnitzer, Monika - 2010

This paper examines micro-level channels of how financial development can affect macroeconomic outcomes like the level of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey...

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The productivity advantages of large cities: Distinguishing agglomeration from firm selection

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent - 2012

interactions that increase productivity), possibly reinforced by localised natural advantage. To distinguish between them, we nest … larger cities left-truncates the productivity distribution whereas stronger agglomeration right-shifts and dilates the … cannot explain spatial productivity differences. This result holds across sectors, city size thresholds, establishment …

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Human Capital Investment and Globalization in Extortionary States

Andersson, Fredrik; Konrad, Kai A. - 2001

This paper considers education investment and public education subsidies in closed and open economies with an extortionary government. The extortionary government in a closed economy has incentives to subsidize education in order to overcome a hold-up problem of time consistent taxation, similar...

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