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Subsidizing firm entry in open economies
Pflüger, Michael; Südekum, Jens - 2009
Entrepreneurs who decide to enter an industry are faced with different levels of effective entry costs in different countries. These costs are heavily influenced by economic policy. What is not well understood is how international trade affects the government incentive to impact on entry costs,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271259
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Globalization and strategic research investments
Bohnstedt, Anna; Schwarz, Christian; Suedekum, Jens - 2010
We develop a general equilibrium model of international trade with heterogeneous firms, where countries can invest into basic research to improve their technological potential. These research investments tighten firm selection and raise the average productivity of firms in the market, thereby...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278406
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Enhanced Intergenerational Occupational Mobility through Trade Expansion: Evidence from Vietnam
Mitra, Devashish; Pham, Hoang; Ural Marchand, Beyza - 2022
Using eight rounds of the Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys (VHLSSs) spanning 16 years and exploiting the US-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA) in 2001 as a large export shock, we investigate the impact of this shock on intergenerational occupational mobility in Vietnam employing a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351782
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Subsidizing Firm Entry in Open Economies
Pflüger, Michael P.; Suedekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Entrepreneurs who decide to enter an industry are faced with different levels of effective entry costs in different countries. These costs are heavily influenced by economic policy. What is not well understood is how international trade affects the government incentive to impact on entry costs,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005103278
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Globalization and Strategic Research Investments
Bohnstedt, Anna; Schwarz, Christian; Suedekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We develop a general equilibrium model of international trade with heterogeneous firms, where countries can invest into basic research to improve their technological potential. These research investments tighten firm selection and raise the average productivity of firms in the market, thereby...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805630
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Modeling International Trade Flows Between Eastern European Countries and OECD Countries
Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert; Sova, Ana Maria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Our paper deals with econometric developments for the estimation of the gravity model which lead to convergent parameter estimates even when a correlation exists between the explanatory variables and the specific unobservable characteristics of each unit. We implement panel data econometric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761674
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Trade Liberalization and Local Labor Markets in Morocco
Roche Rodriguez, Jaime Alfonso; Robertson, Raymond; … - 2023
Morocco's trade liberalization policies have promoted economic progress over the past two decades. However, effects on Morocco's local labor market outcomes vary. By combining three complementary approaches and modeling techniques, this paper estimates: (i) how trade agreements have increased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377116
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Exports to Improve Women's Economic Opportunities in Morocco
Roche Rodriguez, Jaime Alfonso; Robertson, Raymond; … - 2023
Morocco's trade liberalization policies coincided with macroeconomic growth over the past two decades. The relationship between trade liberalization and individual-level labor-market outcomes, however, are not well understood. By combining three complementary approaches and modeling techniques,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469365
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Re-Assessing the Impacts of Exports on Local Labour Market Outcomes: A Supply Chain Perspective. Evidence from Egypt
Tillian, Pablo; Kokas, Deeksha; Góes, Carlos; … - 2023
Egypt as observed in other countries, as highlighted in the existing literature explaining the adverse effects of imports on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469633
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The impact of immigration on international trade: A meta-analysis
Genc, Murat; Gheasi, Masood; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2011
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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