combining data from multiple surveys, we create an integrated measure of volatility in available household resources, accounting …

evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly … is evidence that firms with fdi are less productive than firms that export. …

/2009. Almost all of the decline in exports was due to negative changes of exports in firms that continue to export (i.e. at the so …-called intensive margin) while the decrease of exports due to export stoppers (at the so-called extensive margin) was tiny. It is shown … the micro-structure of the recent export collapse in manufacturing industries in Germany during the crisis of 2008 …

highlights the fact that high exchange rate volatility may as well signal high costs for labor markets. The impact of exchange … rate volatility on labor markets in the CEECs is analyzed, finding that volatility vis?- vis the euro significantly lowers … employment growth. Hence, the elimination of exchange rate volatility could be considered as a substitute for a removal of …

In this paper, a survey on theoretically expected and empirically proved impacts of exchange rate volatility is given …. With regard to the West German unemployment, the effects of volatility are empirically analysed using three different … volatility measures and four country groups. In autoregressive models, a significant disturbing impact of volatility can be found …

What is the relationship between economic growth and its volatility? Does political instability affect growth directly … or indirectly, through volatility? This paper tries to answer such questions using a power-ARCH framework with annual … legislative changes) has an indirect (through volatility) negative impact. We also find preliminary support for the idea that …

achieve similar volatility than fully deregulated labor markets. Flexibility at the margin produces a gap in separation costs … de labor market volatility. This increased volatility is partially reverted when limitations in the duration and number … explain the similar volatility observed in many regulated OECD labor markets with flexibility at the margin vis-à-vis the …

use a modified gravity model to examine the migrant stock-export relationship and find that United States exports to a … on American exports. Our data set spans the exports of 44 commodities to 17 countries observed at 5 year intervals. We … the effect varied across ?Old? Europe, ?New? Europe, and non-Europe groupings of the trading partner countries. Exports …