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Firms Left Behind : Emigration and Firm Productivity
Giesing, Yvonne - 2018
This paper establishes a causal link between the emigration of skilled workers and firm performance in source countries …. Using firm-level panel data from ten Eastern European countries, we show that the emigration of skilled workers lowers firm … to 2014 as a source of exogenous variation in the emigration rates from new EU member states. We argue that a potential …
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The Subjective Inflation Expectations of Households and Firms : Measurement, Determinants, and Implications
Weber, Michael; D'Acunto, Francesco; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Households' and firms' subjective inflation expectations play a central role in macroeconomic and intertemporal microeconomic models. We discuss how subjective inflation expectations are measured, the patterns they display, their determinants, and how they shape households' and firms' economic...
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Emigration, Business Dynamics, and Firm Heterogeneity in North Macedonia
Li, Ninghui - 2023
High emigration rates are a challenge in the Western Balkans. High emigration rates might lead to inadequate skilled … more than 12.4% of North Macedonians live abroad. To assess the consequences, we estimate the impact of emigration on the … number of firms and capital formation. Business dynamics can affect emigration reversely. To alleviate the endogeneity bias …
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More similar firms - More similar regions? On the role of firm heterogeneity for agglomeration
von Ehrlich, Maximilian; Seidel, Tobias - 2012
In contrast to what several papers have argued recently, we show that firm heterogeneity fosters agglomeration of economic activity. If firms are more similar with respect to their total factor productivity, each company faces a lower propensity to export. This renders the home market more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291502
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Skilled immigration and the employment structures of US firms
Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; Lincoln, William F. - 2013
We study the impact of skilled immigrants on the employment structures of U.S. firms using matched employer-employee data. Unlike most previous work, we use the firm as the lens of analysis to account for a greater level of heterogeneity and the fact that many skilled immigrant admissions are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229959
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More similar firms : more similar regions? ; on the role of firm heterogeneity for agglomeration
Ehrlich, Maximilian von; Seidel, Tobias - 2012
In contrast to what several papers have argued recently, we show that firm heterogeneity fosters agglomeration of economic activity. If firms are more similar with respect to their total factor productivity, each company faces a lower propensity to export. This renders the home market more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009687249
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Do Firms Respond to Immigration?
Olney, William W. - 2009
Research generally focuses on how immigration affects native workers, while the impact of immigration on domestic firms is often overlooked. This paper addresses this important omission by examining whether firms respond to immigration by adjusting the location of their production activities....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012718454
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Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of U.S. Firms
Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William; Lincoln, William Fabius - 2014
We study the impact of skilled immigrants on the employment structures of U.S. firms using matched employer-employee data. Unlike most previous work, we use the fi rm as the lens of analysis to account for a greater level of heterogeneity and the fact that many skilled immigrant admissions are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014148352
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Immigration and business dynamics : evidence from U.S. firms
Mahajan, Parag - 2022
Prior literature on the economic impact of immigration has largely ignored changes to the composition of labor demand. In contrast, this paper uses a comprehensive collection of survey and administrative data to show that heterogeneous establishment entry and exit drive immigrant-induced job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013332159
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Arbeitsmarktchancen von Flüchtlingen in Deutschland: Ergebnisse einer Unternehmensbefragung
Battisti, Michele; Felbermayr, Gabriel; Poutvaara, Panu - In: ifo Schnelldienst 68 (2015) 22, pp. 22-25
Die Integration ausländischer Zuwanderer geschieht über den Arbeitsmarkt. Dar­in sind sich die meisten Beobachter der gegenwärtigen Flüchtlingskrise einig. Doch welche Möglichkeiten sehen die Unternehmen? In welchen Berufsfeldern gibt es konkrete Chancen? Welche Hindernisse stehen einer...
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