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Union Bargaining and Intra-Industry Productivity Differentials: Theory and Evidence from Germany
Brändle, Tobias; Baumann, Florian - 2013
This paper indicates that the extent of collective bargaining coverage in an industry may depend on the differences in firms productivity levels within the industry. Less pronounced differences in productivity levels make it easier to design collective wage contracts that are accepted by a wider...
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Features of tertiarisation in the developed economies and worldwide offshoring
Chiaruttini, Maria Stella - 2013
mirrored by increasing FDI negative positions for nations such as China, Mexico, Brazil and Ireland. The building up of this … export-driven Germany, or the industrial producer China and the offshoring of services towards India. …
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Exports, agglomeration and workforce diversity: An empirical assessment for German establishments
Brunow, Stephan; Grünwald, Luise - 2015
Theoretical and empirical contributions on export behavior highlight the importance of firms' productivity and their levels of economies of scale on firms' export success in `foreign markets. In the context of agglomeration economies, firms enjoy produc-tivity gains when they are located close...
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Bridging Firm's Innovation, Productivity and Export: An Analysis using Swedish CIS data
Jienwatcharamongkhol, Viroj; Tavassoli, Mohammad Hossein - 2012
This paper analyses the effect of innovation on the well-established productivity-export association in the literature. Here, we argue that actively innovative firms have a higher productivity, which make them more likely to become exporters. Moreover, exporting firms learn from their trading...
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Import Competition and Firm Productivity: Evidence from German Manufacturing
Slavtchev, Viktor; Bräuer, Richard; Mertens, Matthias - 2020
This study analyzes empirically the effects of import competition on firm productivity (TFPQ) using administrative firm-level panel data from German manufacturing. We find that only import competition from high-income countries is associated with positive incentives for firms to invest in...
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How deep is your love? Innovation, Upgrading and the Depth of Internationalization
Meyer, Birgit - 2020
Global Value Chains (GVCs) provide an important opportunity to become member of the global economy. Gaining access to GVCs and the possibility of developing linkages with major suppliers and customers enables the prospect to upgrade products and production processes via knowledge and...
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Spanish Public Policies towards the Promotion of Cloud Computing and Digital Services for SMEs
Serrano Calle, Silvia; Pérez Martínez, Jorge; Frías … - 2016
The paper focuses on the first public programs in Spain to support the introduction of cloud computing services for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and micro-SMEs, and facilitating the digital transformation of SMEs, stimulating e-commerce and encouraging competitiveness. The paper...
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Regional determinants of new business formation in China: Prefecture-level evidence
Borowiecki, Martin; Leitner, Karl-Heinz - 2015
strength are strongly linked to higher business entry rates. Our results for China contrast with recent findings on the effects …
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How Does International Capital Flow?
Kumhof, Michael; Rungcharoenkitkul, Phurichai; Sokol, Andrej - 2021
Understanding gross capital flows is increasingly viewed as crucial for both macroeconomic and financial stability policies, but theory is lagging behind many key policy debates. We fill this gap by developing a two-country DSGE model that tracks domestic and cross-border gross positions between...
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Similarity and income content at the international trade: The case of BRICS during the period 2000/09
da Silva, Orlando Monteiro; Drumond, Rafael Rodrigues; … - 2011
that similarity has declined ever since. Exports from China and India, in turn, are increasingly similar to each other and … rates in China and India. India and Russia's sophistication indexes surpassed that of Brazil in 2007, which signal that … losing market share for China and India as an exporter of sophisticated products. …
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