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We examine whether exposure to gender inequality at export destinations affects the gender wage gap in exporting firms … employer- employee data from Sweden and calculate how exposed firms are to country-level gender inequality through their export … destinations. Although increased export intensity on average leads to a wider within-firm gender wage gap, the effect is entirely …
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manufacturing firms starting export activities. Nevertheless, there are no corresponding findings for firms that stop exporting or …
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they mainly export to far away markets, or when they export differentiated goods. Our results are little changed (1) when …
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within firms regarding their export response on markets other than Russia, since the negative impact was concentrated on …
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Does what you exported matter? We build a new global commodity-level export database for the previous era of … globalization and find persistence in productive capabilities proxied by economic complexity, export diversification, and …
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Export is an important contributor to growth with numerous direct and indirect macroeconomic benefits. Moreover, firms …
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Micro-level empirical research has begun to obtain important results on the effects of currency variations on firms' survival. To date, the literature has lacked detailed analysis of the effects of exchange rates on firms' survival behavior in emerging markets due to a scarcity of firm level...
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empirically. Export intensity is regressed on two services parameters, applying a fractional model to a rich panel of firms in … higher export intensity. Buying-in more services is associated with higher export intensity for firms in selected industries …
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Although there exists a vast literature on convergence and divergence of income levels across countries or regions at the aggregate level, there is only little work on convergence and/or diver- gence processes of productivity and wage levels at the more disaggregated industrial level. These are...
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We present a model, in which a small industrialised economy outsources part of its production into a small foreign country which is well endowed with low-skilled labour. We analyse under which conditions sinking trade costs stimulate outsourcing activities, thereby increasing the wage dispersion...
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