Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present an investigation into the relationships between Research and Development (R&D) and export decisions in Turkey. We empirically test to what extent firms’ R&D and export decisions are determined on the basis of firm-specific characteristics such...

Our knowledge of the trade effects of domestic infrastructure is very limited. The reason is twofold. First, data needed to examine these effects are not readily available. Second, identifying such effects requires properly addressing potential endogeneity problems affecting the relationship...

Social assistance and inactivity traps have long been considered amongst the main causes of the poor employment performance of EU countries. The success of New Labour has triggered a growing interest in instruments capable of combining the promotion of responsibility and self-sufficiency with...

In this paper we study the effect of migration in a two-sector model where production is performed with one freely mobile factor and sector-specific CES composites of two labor services -- simple and complex tasks. Tasks' supply is provided by migrants and natives; they differ in terms of...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present an investigation into the relationships between Research and Development (R&D) and export decisions in Turkey. We empirically test to what extent firms' R&D and export decisions are determined on the basis of firm-specific characteristics such as...

The presence of macroeconomic uncertainty poses potential and veritable risk to real sector activity. Thus, this study set out to examine how Non-traditional Export (NTE) firms in Ghana respond to macroeconomic uncertainty. The study conducts a survey on NTE firms in Ghana to elicit responses,...

High-value agricultural supply chains have been playing an increasingly important role in developing countries and have had significant effects on the rural labour markets. This paper analyses the simultaneous effects of small producer participation in the latter on both household hired labour...

This volume was prepared by Benedikt Heid while he was working at the ifo Institute and the University of Bayreuth. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. It includes six self-contained...

An emerging literature on standards, global supply chains, and development argues that enhanced quality and safety standards are major trade barriers for developing country exports and cause the marginalization of small businesses and poor households in developing countries. This paper is the...