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-14. Secondly, export related jobs grew at a much faster rate than overall employment during the period. Thirdly, a chunk of these …
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This paper studies the link between a firms education level, export performance and wages of its workers. We argue that … that firms with high export intensities pay higher wages. However, an interaction term between export intensity and skill … intensity has a positive impact on wages and it absorbs the direct effect of the export intensity. That is, we find an export …
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The world economy is increasingly shaped by cross-border production and investment activity. The paper uses complex network analysis along with panel data econometric techniques to study the structure and interactions between the networks of global value chains (GVC) and foreign direct...
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To assess the effects of an oil price bust on individual labor market outcomes, we leverage the 2015 exogenous decline in international oil prices with geographical variation in oil-dependency in Ecuador. To account for propagation mechanisms, we also test the causal effect of the oil price bust...
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There exists a growing body of literature which looks at export decisions made by firms. Most studies focus on … aims at filling this gap in the literature by analyzing the export behavior of a statistically representative sample of 192 … higher probability of exporting. Training activities for employees are important to export outside of MERCOSUR. -- SME …
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While many studies explain the correlation between firm-level productivity and export status entirely by better firms … to new clients. We show that small firms with a lot of outstanding trade credit expand sales the most following export … export market entry. …
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effects of transport-infrastructure improvements. In this paper, we combine highly disaggregated records of export flows with …
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Our knowledge of the trade effects of domestic infrastructure is very limited. The reason is twofold. First, data needed to examine these effects are not readily available. Second, identifying such effects requires properly addressing potential endogeneity problems affecting the relationship...
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In this paper, we examine an innovative postal export regime that involves both a streamlining of export procedures and … learn. In so doing, we use a unique dataset that consists of the entire universe of Peru's export transactions over the … period 1999-2014 including both regular shipments and postal shipments. We find that the new export mode has been associated …
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Using Japanese firm data covering the Japanese financial crisis in the early 1990s, we find that exporters' domestic sales declined more significantly than their foreign sales, which in turn declined more significantly than non-exporters' sales. This stylized fact provides a new litmus test for...
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