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analyses of public capital productivity have been limited to a small sample of countries for which official capital stock …
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Melitz-style model of monopolistic competition with heterogeneous firms and show that this is indeed the case. Accounting for … normative effects of offshoring: trade in tasks increases productivity of active firms and improves welfare in the offshoring …
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Several studies have identified the impact of trade liberalization in developing countries on the return to education within a Mincerian framework through a difference-in-difference estimator or with industry-level measures of trade openness. These studies have typically estimated the return to...
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studies conducted so far focus alone on the productivity effects of offshoring at the firm level. Here I carry out the … analysis of both the employment and productivity effects at the aggregate level of the industry, covering the years 1980 …. On the other hand, positive effects on the growth rate of productivity are found as a result of both types of offshoring …
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FDI is an important channel for productivity spillovers across economies. But productivity and employment effects of … difference of total factor productivity amounts to 6 %. Second, multinationals show quite heterogeneous performances after cross … firm. But most importantly, the causal effect of cross-border M&A on the multinationals' productivity is positive and …
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Our analysis of the survival of firms leads to the important result that the hypotheses about differences between various industries in the life duration of new firms and about the importance of the region of location for the probability of survival are confirmed. Many more enterprises are...
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This paper presents some ideas about determinants of merger waves and some evidence on their effect on profitability and employment. A brief survey of previous merger waves and an analysis of the recent one give support to the hypothesis that sectoral shocks are at the root of merger waves....
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werden die Löhne geförderter Arbeitnehmer in jeder Branche mit denen ähnlicher Personen verglichen, die in einem der anderen …
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productivity differences, the model features pro t and wage differentials across industries. We use this setting to study the …
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