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Globalization, Government Popularity, and the Great Skill Divide
Aksoy, Cevat G. - 2018
,000 individuals, we find that growth in high skill intensive exports (of goods and services) increases approval of the leader and …
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Techies, Trade, and Skill-Biased Productivity
Harrigan, James - 2018
We study the impact of firm level choices of ICT, R&D, exporting and importing on the evolution of productivity and its bias towards skilled occupations. We use a novel measure of the propensity of a firm to engage in technology investment and adoption: its employment of workers with STEM...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480946
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Global Production Sharing and Rising Inequality : A Survey of Trade and Wages
Feenstra, Robert - 2001
We argue that trade in intermediate inputs, or 'global production sharing,' is a potentially important explanation for the increase in the wage gap between skilled and unskilled workers in the U.S. and elsewhere. Using a simple model of heterogeneous activities within an industry, we show that...
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Learning to Use Trade Agreements
Krishna, Kala - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Free trade or preferential trade areas (PTAs) allow importers who belong to the area to export to each other while paying zero or preferential tariffs as long as Rules of Origin (ROOs) are met. Meeting them is costly not only in terms of production costs but also in terms of documentation costs....
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The Intensive Margin in Trade
Fernandes, Ana M. - 2018
. Using the World Bank's Exporter Dynamics Database (EDD) featuring firm-level exports from 50 countries, we find that around … 50% of variation in exports is along the extensive margin --- a quantitative victory for the Melitz framework. The … remaining 50% on the intensive margin (exports per exporting firm) contradicts a special case of Melitz with Pareto …
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Latent Exports : Almost Ideal Gravity and Zeros
Anderson, James E. - 2020
Almost Ideal gravity associates zero trade flows with variable and fixed trade cost variation in a flexible demand system. Latent trade shares between non-partners are inferred from the Tobit estimator applied to trade among 75 countries and 25 sectors in 2006. Latent Trade Bias (LTB) is the...
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Cities, Productivity, and Trade
Marin, Alvaro Garcia - 2020
We document a novel stylized fact: Using data for several countries, we show that export activity is disproportionately concentrated in larger cities - even more so than overall economic activity. We account for this fact by marrying elements of international trade and economic geography. We...
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Contractual Versus Generic Outsourcing : The Role of Proximity
Feenstra, Robert C. - 2005
. We confirm these predictions using data for ordinary versus processing exports from Chinese provinces to destination …
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The Impact of Exports on Innovation : Theory and Evidence
Aghion, Philippe - 2018
This paper investigates the effect of export shocks on innovation. On the one hand a positive shock increases market size and therefore innovation incentives for all firms. On the other hand it increases competition as more firms enter the export market. This in turn reduces profits and...
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Sizing up Market Failures in Export Pioneering Activities
Wei, Shang-Jin - 2017
Chinese electronics exports. Our key finding is that "missing pioneers" are a low-probability event for large countries, but …
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