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productivity for the entire surviving population of initially state-owned industrial corporations in Romania. The data permit us to …
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Before the millennium Hungary's market share in exports of goods was increasing at the fastest rate in Central and … Eastern Europe; however, after 2000 that growth became the lowest. The slowdown in growth in Hungary's export market share is … mainly due to the stagnating price index of goods exports. The aim of this paper is to examine whether this process was …
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Transition has involved major job destruction and creation. This paper examines the skill content of these changes using a detailed three country firm survey. It shows that transition has exerted a strong bias against unskilled labour who have lost employment disproportionately. Moreover, job...
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the non-privatizable group by 10 - 30 percent, depending on the first-stage estimation method, OLS or matching combined …
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sales, and we show that import is even more concentrated than export both within sectors and along the sector and country …
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international trade, together with some new facts. First, the availability of information on import and export enables us to … differentiate firms involved in both trading activities - namely two-way traders - from firms that only export, and from those that … only import. We show that firms engaged in both import and export outperform those involved in either importing or …
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starting to export on plant performance. We find positive effects on growth of employment, labor productivity, and wages. …
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There are two main options for companies to serve foreign markets: exports and foreign direct investment (FDI). Based …
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the impact of plant characteristics on export activities varies along the conditional size distribution of the export …
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In this paper we analyse the relationship between export and innovation activities of German service sector companies … Schumpeterian hypothesis of export activities being mainly driven by innovation activities. Factor endowment theories are only … partially supported. While human capital significantly improves export performance, labour costs hamper it only in selected …
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