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Evidence about the effect of exports on welfare at the local level is scarce. Using a unique dataset of international … provides new evidence on the impact of a significant rise in exports on poverty and inequality at the local level. The analysis … implements an instrumental variable approach that combines the initial structure of exports across municipalities with global …
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distribution of immigration elasticities of imports and exports across 48 studies that yielded 300 observations. The results show … on trade. The migrant elasticity of imports is larger than that of exports in about half the countries considered, but … the publication bias and heterogeneity-corrected elasticity is slightly larger for exports than for imports. …
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distribution of immigration elasticities of imports and exports across 48 studies that yielded 300 observations. The results show … on trade. The migrant elasticity of imports is larger than that of exports in about half the countries considered, but … the publication bias and heterogeneity-corrected elasticity is slightly larger for exports than for imports. …
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In new new international trade theory, whether firms export or not are determined by their productivity. These models assume that firms enter a market to find their productivity levels revealed to them as in a lottery. In this paper we propose an alternative way to model whether firms export or...
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the establishment. The relationship is also stronger when we consider exports to particular regions and workers from these …
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-conflict reconstruction in the former Yugoslavia, using exports as outcome. Using confidential social security data to capture intensity of … elasticity of exports to return migration between 0.08 to 0.24. Our results are stronger in knowledge-intensive industries and …
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18 studies using data from 20 highly developed, developing, and less developed countries document that average wages in exporting firms are higher than in non-exporting firms from the same industry and region. The existence of these so-called exporter wage premia is one of the stylized facts...
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This paper investigates short and long-run effects of trade liberalization on employment and wages. Employment and wage equations are estimated using data (1971?96) for importable and exportable sectors in Tunisia. Causality tests show that causality is unidirectional. Wages strongly causes...
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productivity, wages and exports spillovers in developing, developed and transitional economies. Although theory can identify a …
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While it is a stylized fact that exporting firms pay higher wages than non-exporting firms, the direction of the link between exporting and wages is less clear. Using a rich set of German linked employer-employee panel data we follow over time plants that start to export. We show that the...
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