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Trade and Unemployment:What Do the Data Say?

Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Prat, Julien; Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009

This paper documents a robust empirical regularity: in the long-run, higher trade openness iscausally associated to a … within-country trade. Our main findingis robust to various definitions of unemployment rates and openness measures …. Thepreferred specification suggests that a 10 percent increase in total trade openness reducesunemployment by about one percentage …

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Der Markup als ökonomische Kennzahl

Paetz, Jürgen - 2022

Infrastruktur -- Zoll und Steuern -- Ausländische Direktinvestitionen -- Zwischengüter und weiterverarbeitender Handel -- Inflation …Im internationalen Handel können manche gewinnorientierte Unternehmen ihre Preise deutlich höher ansetzen als ihre …

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Dissecting the German export miracle: Plant-level evidence

Etzel, Daniel; Hauptmann, Andreas; Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - In: Economic Systems 37 (2013) 3, pp. 387-403

Wage moderation in Germany is often cited as a major cause of its recent export success. We construct competitiveness measures at both industry and plant level using OECD STAN data in order to confront this hypothesis with empirical evidence. Our results show that plants’ export intensity is...

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Foreign direct investment and search unemployment: Theory and evidence

Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - In: International Review of Economics & Finance 30 (2014) C, pp. 41-56

This paper proposes a simple multi-industry trade model with search frictions in the labor market. Unimpeded access to …

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International Trade and Collective Bargaining Outcomes: Evidence from German Employer-Employee Data

Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Hauptmann, Andreas; Schmerer, … - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der … - 2012

In theoretical trade models with variable markups and collective wage bargaining, exportexposure may reduce the …

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International Trade and Collective Bargaining Outcomes: Evidence from German Employer-Employee Data

Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Hauptmann, Andreas; Schmerer, … - 2012

In theoretical trade models with variable markups and collective wage bargaining, exportexposure may reduce the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312121

International trade and collective bargaining outcomes: Evidence from German employer-employee data

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Hauptmann, Andreas; Schmerer, … - 2012

In theoretical trade models with variable markups and collective wage bargaining, export exposure may reduce the …

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Trade and unions: Can exporters benefit from collective bargaining?

Capuano, Stella; Hauptmann, Andreas; Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - 2014

Unions are often stigmatized as being a source of inefficiency due to higher collective bargaining outcomes. This is in stark contrast with the descriptive evidence presented in this paper. Larger firms choose to export and are also more likely to adopt collective bargaining. We rationalize...

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The Implications of the New Silk Road Railways on Local Development

Fang, Ling; Kleimann, Martin; Li, Yuan; Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - 2019

This paper studies regional treatment effects of infrastructure projects on economic growth, employment and intermodal transport volumes. The recent Belt and Road Initiative provides an experiment that can be evaluated using matching econometrics. Our results show that the establishment of a new...

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Estimating the Local Effectiveness of Institutions: A Latent-Variable Approach

Reinecke, Antonia; Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - 2019

This paper develops an approach that allows constructing regional proxies of government effectiveness at a highly dis-aggregated level. Our idea builds on the well documented interdependence between institutions and exports, which allows estimating the latent government effectiveness using...

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