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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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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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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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Using data for all exporters, we show that it is a small group of firms that dominate exports in Spain. For example, in … 2015 the top 200 firms were responsible for half of Spanish exports. This concentration has not changed substantially over … of Spanish exports. If top exporters disappeared, Spain would lose its revealed comparative advantage in 60% of …
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This paper investigates how firm size and global sourcing affect the export surviving probabilities. By using data on export and import transactions disaggregated by destination/origin for the entire Danish manufacturing firms between the period 1995-2006, the author is able to classify the...
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This paper investigates how firm size and global sourcing affect the export surviving probabilities. By using data on export and import transactions disaggregated by destination/origin for the entire Danish manufacturing firms between the periods 1995-2006, the author is able to classify the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012132300
, 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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Using firm-level data on export transactions, we uncover a rich set of results about the extensive margins of exporting and exporter responses during periods of global downturns. We perform our analysis with respect to firm size, age, ownership status, and sector to emphasize the role of firm...
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