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This paper examines the response of industries and firms to changes in trade costs. Several new firm-level models of international trade with heterogeneous firms predict that industry productivity will rise as trade costs fall due to the reallocation of activity across plants within an industry....
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This paper examines the response of industries and firms to changes in trade costs. Several new firm-level models of international trade with heterogeneous firms predict that industry productivity will rise as trade costs fall due to the reallocation of activity across plants within an industry....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005587009
aggregate Employment for a sample of 45 OECD and G20 countries for the period 1990-2019 after controlling for the effects of … results suggest that a more product-wise concentrated export structure leads to new employment opportunities. In contrast …, geographical diversification of export does not have any impact on overall Employment. The Internet has substitution effects on …
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to non-exporters. Employment, shipments, wages, productivity and capital intensity are all higher at exporters at any … ex-ante for exporters. The benefits of exporting for the firm are less clear. Employment growth and the probability of … survival are both higher for exporters; however, productivity and wage growth is not superior, particularly over longer …
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This paper studies how minimum wage policies affect firm employment in China using a unique county level minimum wage … or large profit margin increase employment, while those with low wages or small profit margin downsize. The increase in … the monopsony rent of firms.Our results provide evidence for the theoretical predictions of the positive minimum wage-employment …
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of cost competitiveness. Of the rise of employment by some 100 000 jobs since 2015 about half can be explained by a … years. This requires, nevertheless, that the employment rate increases by 2023 to the level reached by comparative countries …
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that more complex tasks are more costly to complete. Within the structure of our model, firms skew employment toward … occupations engaged in more complex tasks. Moreover, the distribution of employment is more skewed for more globalized firms …
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that more complex tasks are more costly to complete. Within the structure of our model, firms skew employment toward … occupations engaged in more complex tasks. Moreover, the distribution of employment is more skewed for more globalized firms …
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survival. The employment composition and performance responses to service imports differ across firms in the manufacturing … characteristics to examine changes in employment composition and performance of Finnish service importers during a period of a … find that firms that increase imports of service inputs reduce employment of low-skill service workers, increase employment …
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that more complex tasks are more costly to complete. Within the structure of our model, firms skew employment toward … occupations engaged in more complex tasks. Moreover, the distribution of employment is more skewed for more globalized firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348406