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Trade with China and Skill Upgrading : Evidence from Belgian Firm Level Data
Mion, Giordano - 2009
We use Belgian firm level data over the period 1996-2007 to analyze the impact of imports from China and other low wage countries on firm growth, exit, and skill upgrading. We distinguish the impact of imports into two different channels: industry-level import competition and firm-level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153681
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Trade with China and skill upgrading : evidence from Belgian firm level data
Mion, Giordano; Vandenbussche, Hylke; Zhu, Linke - 2010
We use Belgian firm-level data over the period 1996-2007 to analyze the impact of imports from China and other low-wage countries on firm growth, exit, and skill upgrading in manufacturing. For this purpose we use both industry-level and firm-level imports by country of origin and distinguish...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596524
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Trade with China and Skill Upgrading : Evidence from Belgian Firm Level Data
Mion, Giordano; Vandenbussche, Hylke; Zhu, Linke - 2010
We use Belgian firm-level data over the period 1996-2007 to analyze the impact of imports from China and other low-wage countries on firm growth, exit, and skill upgrading in manufacturing. For this purpose we use both industry-level and firm-level imports by country of origin and distinguish...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014190945
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Exports, international investment, and plant performance : evidence from a non-parametric test
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - 2003
This paper compares the performance of purely domestic plants, domestic exporters and domestic multinationals. For our empirical analysis we utilise a non-parametric approach based on the principle of first order stochastic dominance. We find that the distributions for multinationals dominate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011439152
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Robots and firms
Koch, Michael; Manuylov, Ilya; Smolka, Marcel - 2019
robots, and a productivity-enhancing reallocation of labor across firms, away from non-adopters, and toward adopters. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011997063
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Decomposing firm-product appeal : how important is consumer taste?
Aw, Bee-yan; Lee, Yi; Vandenbussche, Hylke - 2018
separates taste from quality and productivity (TFPQ) at the firm-product level. Export data by destination countries allow us to … revenue. Productivity (TFPQ) differences between firm-products become more prominent than taste in explaining export success …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011802728
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Productivity premia for German manufacturing firms exporting to the Euro-area and beyond : first evidence from robust fixed effects estimations
Verardi, Vincenzo; Wagner, Joachim - 2010
estimates of the productivity premium of German firms exporting to the Euro-zone and beyond, controlling for unobserved time … observations, or outliers. The paper shows that estimates of the exporter productivity premium by destination are driven by a small … share of outliers. Using a "clean" sample without outliers the estimated productivity premium of firms that export to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003968468
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Productivity premia for German manufacturing firms exporting to the Euro-area and beyond : first evidence from robust fixed effects estimations
Verardi, Vincenzo; Wagner, Joachim - 2010
estimates of the productivity premium of German firms exporting to the Euro-zone and beyond, controlling for unobserved time … observations, or outliers. The paper shows that estimates of the exporter productivity premium by destination are driven by a small … share of outliers. Using a “clean” sample without outliers the estimated productivity premium of firms that export to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003968702
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Exports, foreign direct investments and productivity : are services firms different?
Wagner, Joachim - 2011 - This version: September 23, 2011
evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly … taking differences along the conditional productivity distribution and firms with extreme values, or outliers, into account …) indicate that the productivity pecking order found in numerous studies using data for firms from manufacturing industries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009304772
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Exports, foreign direct investments and productivity : are services firms different?
Wagner, Joachim - 2011
evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly … taking differences along the conditional productivity distribution and firms with extreme values, or outliers, into account …) indicate that the productivity pecking order found in numerous studies using data for firms from manufacturing industries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009425691