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Exporters, importers and two-way traders : the links between internationalization, skills and wage
Serti, Francesco (contributor); Tomasi, Chiara (contributor) - 2008
- namely two-way traders - from firms that only export, and from those that only import. We show that two-way traders have a … export or import. The paper also looks at how the wages and the skill structure of the trading firms change with the country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003746226
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The impact of the war on human capital and productivity in Ukraine
Égert, Balázs; De la Maisonneuve, Christine - 2023
In addition to the humanitarian suffering and huge immediate economic costs, the war in Ukraine will have long-term consequences, among which are losses in human capital that will impact aggregate productivity for many years. Exploiting a new stock measure of human capital combining the quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014304472
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Education, Governance and Trade-Related Technology Diffusion in Latin America
Schiff, Maurice; Wang, Yanling - 2021
This paper examines the impact on TFP of North-South trade-related technology diffusion in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). North-South R&D flows are constructed based on industry-specific R&D in the North, North-South trade patterns, and input-output relations in the South. The main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319472
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A new macroeconomic measure of human capital exploiting PISA and PIAAC : linking education policies to productivity
Égert, Balázs; De la Maisonneuve, Christine; Turner, David - 2022
This paper provides a new measure of human capital using PISA and PIAAC surveys, and mean years of schooling. The new measure is a cohort-weighted average of past PISA scores (representing the quality of education) of the working age population and the corresponding mean years of schooling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013186787
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A new macroeconomic measure of human capital with strong empirical links to productivity
Botev, Jarmila; Égert, Balázs; Smidova, Zuzana; … - 2019
This paper calculates new measures of human capital. Contrary to the existing literature, they are based on realistic rates of return to education, which are allowed to vary substantially across countries and to some extent over time. The new measures perform well in regression analysis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012202839
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Productivity as if space mattered : an application to factor markets across China
Cheng, Wenya; Morrow, John; Tacharoen, Kitjawat - 2013
Although firms may face radically different production conditions, this dimension of firm heterogeneity is often overlooked. We model input demand across local factor markets, explicitly considering search costs which explain why firms care about both the price and availability of inputs. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010212669
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Exporting and Productivity : The Effects of Multi-Market and Multi-Product Export Entry
Masso, Jaan - 2011
potentially heterogeneous effects of the different modes of export market entry. We study how productivity of firms is affected by … export entry simultaneously into several markets or export entry with several export products, and compare these to the entry … into fewer markets or the entry with fewer products. Our analysis is based on detailed export data from firms in Estonia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117930
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Firms' export decisions : self-selection versus trial-and-error
Movahedi, Mohammad; Shahbazi, Kiumars - 2020
' decision to export. The model sheds light on the affirmations of the founding models of the 'new theory of international trade …', in particular the role of productivity and sunk costs of exporting in the firms’ export decision. It also takes into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012251260
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Political Selection in the Skilled City
Accetturo, Antonio - 2014
This paper studies the impact of citizens' human capital on the characteristics of elected politicians in democratic elections for the post of mayor. By using a change in the rules for Italian mayoral elections and a difference-in-differences estimator, I find that cities endowed with a larger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051362
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A new macroeconomic measure of human capital exploiting PISA and PIAAC: Linking education policies to productivity
Égert, Balázs - 2022
This paper provides a new measure of human capital using PISA and PIAAC surveys, and mean years of schooling. The new measure is a cohort-weighted average of past PISA scores (representing the quality of education) of the working age population and the corresponding mean years of schooling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013202470