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Over the last decade, German multinationals created about two million jobs abroad with increasing foreign direct investment (FDI). While there are many reasons for firms to go multinational and probably just as many for Germany's high unemployment, this paper aims to investigate the relationship...
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Trade and technological change continually alter the workplace and labor-market outcomes, with consequences for economy …-quarter of changes in labor-market outcomes (wage inequality then and manufacturing job losses now) was predicted by trade …
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the impact of unit labor costs on exports. We use exports adjusted for their import content. We find a statistically … margin of exports ranging between -0.2 and -0.4. This result is robust to various specifications, including firm, time and … firms that are more labor-intensive having a higher elasticity of exports with respect to unit labor costs. The micro data …
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the impact of unit labor costs on exports. We use exports adjusted for their import content. We find a statistically … margin of exports ranging between -0.2 and -0.4. This result is robust to various specifications, including firm, time and … firms that are more labor-intensive having a higher elasticity of exports with respect to unit labor costs. The micro data …
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the impact of unit labor costs on exports. We use exports adjusted for their import content. We find a statistically … margin of exports ranging between -0.2 and -0.4. This result is robust to various specifications, including firm, time and … firms that are more labor-intensive having a higher elasticity of exports with respect to unit labor costs. The micro data …
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is exploring the employment impact of international trade. The analysis is based on firm level data obtained from Turkish … Generalized Methods of Moments (GMM) with the firm-level production and trade data of Turkish manufacturing industry, this paper … that both manufacturing exports and imports have significant and positive impact on the labor demand of the firm. The …
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Unlike many countries, Egypt did not experience significant labor market improvements following trade liberalization …. In this paper, we build upon the earlier work of Robertson et al. (2021) to investigate why increased Egyptian exports … did not directly increase employment. To illustrate the relationship between firm-level exporting and employment, we …
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-intensive firms raise their amount of exports in response to increasing minimum wage levels. Being exposed to increasing minimum wage …
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, trade, and informal employment as illustrated by the maquiladora industry in Mexico (chapter 4), the interaction between …-Maximilians-Universität München. It includes six self-contained chapters which deal with the following topics in empirical international trade and … countries to additionally include informal employment (chapter 3) as well as the relation between foreign direct investment …
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