Recent attempts to incorporate spatial heterogeneity in minimum-wage employment models have been attacked for using … overly simplistic trend controls, and for neglecting the potential impact on employment growth. We investigate whether such … considerations call into question our earlier findings of statistically insignificant employment effects for the restaurant …

changes to multilateral export performance. The empirical analysis exploits the removal of US tariff uncertainty in … structure of China’s export boom to the EU conforms to the pattern of US tariff uncertainty; (ii) the adjustment takes place at …

and imports to document facts about the amount of intra-good trade - the simultaneous export and import of identical goods … of trading firms are then used to report differences between firms that export and import different goods only (inter …-good traders) and firms that engage in the simultaneous export and import of identical goods (intra-good traders). We find that the …

more likely to export compared to other firms with lower levels of skills-intensity. Firms that hire female workers are … more likely to export than other firms which do not employ women. Furthermore, firms that are larger in their size, have R …&D departments, and owned by foreigners are more likely to export than others and have statistically significant effects on export …

This paper uses information on export transactions by German firms from 2011 to document the role of characteristics of … destination countries for export scope, where export scope is defined as the number of different products a firm exports to a … destination market. It demonstrates that in line with theoretical hypotheses intra-firm differences in export scope across …

This paper uses information on more than 160 million export and import transactions by German firms from 2009 to 2012 …