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Costs of trade and self-selection into exporting and importing : the case of Turkish manufacturing firms
Dalgic, Basak; Fazlioglu, Burcu; Gasiorek, Michael - 2015
This paper focuses on self-selection into trade by exporting and importing firms, and on the presence of differential variable and sunk costs between exporters and importers across different categories of imports. The authors use a rich and recent dataset for Turkish manufacturing firms for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010519073
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Jobs gained and lost through trade : the case of Germany
Lurweg, Maren; Westermeier, Andreas - 2010
The nature of international trade has changed significantly. For centuries, trade concentrated on the exchange of finished goods. It now increasingly involves bits of value that are added at different locations to combine into one final product. Therefore, trade in functions or tasks are of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003944713
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Jobs gained and lost through trade : the case of Germany
Lurweg, Maren; Westermeier, Andreas - 2010 - This draft: March 5, 2010
The nature of international trade has changed significantly. For centuries, trade concentrated on the exchange of finished goods. It now increasingly involves bits of value that are added at different locations to combine into one final product. Therefore, trade in functions or tasks are of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009355411
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Skill Bias Magnified : Intersectoral Linkages and White-Collar Labor Demand in U.S. Manufacturing
Voigtländer, Nico - 2013
This paper presents a novel stylized fact and analyzes its contribution to the skill bias of technical change in U.S. manufacturing. The share of skilled labor embedded in intermediate inputs correlates strongly with the skill share employed in final production. This finding points towards an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014222754
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Foreign competition and domestic innovation : evidence from U.S. patents
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H.; … - 2019
.S. patents matched to corporate owners, we quantify how foreign competition affects domestic innovation. Rising import exposure … sectoral patenting trends, we find that U.S. patent production declines in sectors facing greater import competition. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119210
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Active on many foreign markets : a portrait of German multi-market exporters and importers from manufacturing industries
Wagner, Joachim - 2017 - This version: January 2, 2017
This paper uses information on more than 160 million export and import transactions by German firms from 2009 to 2012 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011591559
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Multiple import sourcing : first evidence for German enterprises from manufacturing industries
Wagner, Joachim - 2017 - This version: January 2, 2017
This paper uses information on import transactions by German firms from 2009 to 2012 merged with information on … multiple import sourcing by importing the same good from more than one source country in a year and that a large share of total … imports is due to multiple sourcing. It is shown that the probability of multiple import sourcing and the share of imports …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011591563
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Import competition and firm productivity : evidence from German manufacturing
Bräuer, Richard; Mertens, Matthias; Slavtchev, Viktor - 2019
This study analyses empirically the effects of import competition on firm productivity (TFPQ) using administrative firm …-level panel data from German manufacturing. We find that only import competition from high-income countries is associated with … positive incentives for firms to invest in productivity improvement, whereas import competition from middle- and low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112493
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Markups of exporters and importers : evidence from Hungary
Hornok, Cecilia; Muraközy, Balázs - 2018
This paper studies the relationship between firm-level markups and trade status using balance sheet information linked to detailed trade data from Hungary between 1995-2003. We find that importing is strongly positively correlated with markups both across and within firms. We argue that this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011820929
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Higher productivity in importing German manufacturing firms : self-selection, learning from importing, or both?
Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - 2008
-way traders do have the highest premia, followed by firms that only export, while firms that only import have the smallest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793388