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Export Take-Offs and Acceleration: Unpacking Cross-Sector Linkages in the Evolution of Comparative Advantage

Bahar, Dany; Rosenow, Samuel; Stein, Ernesto; Wagner, … - 2018

The transition into non-traditional export activities attracts important policy and academic attention. Using international trade data, we explore how alternative linkages relate to the take-off and acceleration of export industries. Concretely, we run a horse-race among alternative Marshallian...

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Davies, Benjamin; Maré, David C. - 2019

We derive a measure of the relatedness between economic activities based on weighted correlations of local employment … quality between geographic areas with different sizes. We examine the contribution of relatedness and complexity to urban … dense with related activities. Relatedness and complexity appear to be most relevant for analysing how large, complex cities …

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Decomposing excess returns in stochastic linear models

Lin, Carl - 2011

We present a theorem helpful in estimating the mean and variance of a linear function with arbitrary multivariate randomness in its coefficients and variables. We derive a generalized decomposition result from two random linear functions in which the result can be applied to most models using...

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Evaluating the causal effects of foreign acquisition on domestic skilled and unskilled wages

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - 2003

increase in the wage rate following an acquisition by a US firm, while no such effect is discernible following acquisitions by …

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Blessing or curse?: Domestic plants' survival and employment prospects after foreign acquisitions

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - 2003

industries for the period 1980 to 1993. We control for possible endogeneity using a matched sample of firms and instrumental …

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The Effects of Foreign Owned Firms on the Labor Market

Almeida, Rita K. - 2003

Cross sectional evidence shows that foreign firms have a more educated workforce and pay higher wages than domestic firms. These results do not necessarily imply that foreign direct investment translates into higher demand for educated workers or higher wages, however, since foreign investment...

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Foreign acquisition, plant survival, and employment growth

Bandick, Roger; Görg, Holger - 2009

This paper analyses the effect of foreign acquisition on survival probability and employment growth of target plant using data on Swedish manufacturing plants during the period 1993-2002. An improvement over previous studies is that we take into account firm level heterogeneity by separating the...

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Foreign Acquisition, Plant Survival, and Employment Growth

Bandick, Roger; Görg, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

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The Effects of Foreign Owned Firms on the Labor Market

Almeida, Rita - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

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Blessing or Curse? Domestic Plants' Survival and Employment Prospects after Foreign Acquisitions

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

industries for the period 1980 to 1993. We control for possible endogeneity using a matched sample of firms and instrumental …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763440