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This paper show evidence that firms choose from a much larger set of internationalization modes than usually assumed in the international trade literature and that this choice is governed by similar selection processes than the one proposed by Helpman, Melitz, Yeaple (2004 AER). We rely on a...
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Firms that want to innovate successfully need to hire and motivate highly talented workers. This paper makes a key connection between the potential returns to innovation in terms of new products and the structure of compensation to skilled employees. We use linked employer-employee data to show...
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. At the industry level, the wage effects of export market participation are strongest for workers in plants belonging to …
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We present a gravity model that accounts for multilateral resistance, firm heterogeneity and country-selection into trade, while accommodating asymmetries in trade flows. A new equation for the proportion of exporting firms takes a gravity form, such that the extensive margin is also affected by...
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innovation among firms that export processed goods, specifically, those in the electronics sectors, located in coastal provinces …
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and export performance among European economies. We use the information compiled in the Trade module of CompNet to … nonexporters. However, this productivity premium is rising with the export experience of firms, with permanent exporters being much …
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Firms play a critical role in the global economy. In this paper, we survey the behavior of firms in the international economy, both in theory and in the data. We first summarize the key empirical facts that motivate the study of firms in trade. Then, we detail recent theoretical developments on...
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exporting and the average export intensity is about five to six percent. By contrast, the firm-level databases on manufacturing … companies in India that have commonly been used for studies on export performance indicate that about half or more of the … manufacturing companies are exporting and the average export intensity is about 12 percent or higher. The paper investigates why …
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While there have been numerous papers on the employment and wage effects of mergers and acquisitions, there has been no direct analysis of the impact of such ownership changes on minority and female workers. This is an unexplored quot;equityquot; dimension of these transactions. We fill this gap...
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