-way traders do have the highest premia, followed by firms that only export, while firms that only import have the smallest … document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the … imports ('learning-by-importing'). We find a positive link between importing and productivity. From an empirical model with …

This paper documents the relationship between firm survival and three types of international trade activities - exports …, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from Germany, one of the … imports and two-way trading for firm survival in a highly developed country. Descriptive statistics and regression analysis …

trade and wages across types of products. In particular, firms that increase their exports (imports) of high- (intermediate …The analysis of the effects of firm-level international trade on wages has so far focused on the role of exports, which … are also typically treated as a composite good. However, we show in this paper that firm-level imports can actually be a …

both imports and exports, and iii) examine the impact of imports according to the country of origin. Looking at the export … side, we find (on the basis of the system GMM estimator) a positive effect of exports on industry wage premia. The results … also show that import penetration has a significant and negative impact on industry wage differentials whatever the country …

import as well as the export activity of the firm. These two innovations allow us to avoid large biases that characterized … recent theories that aim at explaining participation both in export and import markets and at including non …

import as well as the export activity of the firm. These two innovations allow us to avoid large biases that characterized … recent theories that aim at explaining participation both in export and import markets and at including non …

sectors. We find the differences in the short and long-run wage and employment responses to changes in export to be explained …

activities - exports, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from …

exports (per worker) are strongly and causally related to income risk: Imports increase risk and exports decrease risk, and … capital. Accounting for entry-cohort effects and age effects, our findings suggest that within-industry changes in imports and …-specific human capital experience lower income risk. However, a given increase in net import exposure in an industry increases risk …

specification, namely a log-linear gravity model of export and import flows augmented with the logarithm of the stock of immigrants … 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 …