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of international offshoring from the recent patterns of “domestic offshoring”, the relocation of activities across … national border. Investigating the domestic and international offshoring patterns for West German manufacturing industries …. -- International offshoring ; domestic offshoring ; functional fragmentation ; industry life cycle ; Germany ; K density …
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-exporters. -- Trade ; total factor productivity ; exports ; export-led growth ; learning by exporting …
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Foreign-owned firms are frequently viewed as an important source of new capital, access to world markets and employment generation and there exist numerous studies on the determinants of FDI flows and the role of incentives designed to attract FDI. Similarly important for economic growth are...
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theoretical predictions we find that foreign-owned firms do export more goods to more countries after controlling for firm size …
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subsidies on export activities we find no impact of subsidies on the probability to start exporting, and only weak evidence for …. -- Subsidies ; export ; Germany ; enterprise panel data …
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Survey. Overseas vertical and horizontal links are associated with an average increase in export intensity of 74 and 156 … role of Government in fostering overseas links despite their rarity, since they are effective export conduits. -- Exports …
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We explore the export performance of Africa’s underperforming female entrepreneurs, using the Ghanaian ISSER-IGC panel … of key business constraints, across both male and female entrepreneurs. We find that females are less likely to export …
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We investigate the export-enhancing effect of foreign workers at the firm level. We first develop a theoretical … which only foreign workers who were born in the export destination contribute. We test these theoretical predictions using …
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We investigate whether firms' "global engagement", either in the form of exporting or opening up affiliates abroad, is related to the change in their management performance. We use new and unique data from a recent large scale firm survey of management practices in Germany. We calculate...
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This paper presents a novel methodology to measure international managerial skill, which has not been directly measured in the specialized management quality surveys. The international managerial quality variable captures the manager’s organizational capital contribution to improve production...
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