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The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the role of trade in productivity growth in a sample of 30 sectors in 25 EU … industries and only to a lower extent result from a shift towards higher productivity activities. Trade is found to be an … hour worked in these countries appear to be mainly due to positive developments (rising productivity) within single …
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The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the role of trade in productivity growth in a sample of 30 sectors in 25 EU … industries and only to a lower extent result from a shift towards higher productivity activities. Trade is found to be an … hour worked in these countries appear to be mainly due to positive developments (rising productivity) within single …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010625279
productivity, notwithstanding the fact that theory also points up links between trade and industry level productivity. This paper …The impact of firm level productivity heterogeneity on export market entry has been the subject of theoretical … innovation and extensive empirical scrutiny in recent years. The latter has focused on falling trade costs and firm level …
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EPPs across sectors, and hence across countries, can be explained by the variation in productivity dispersion, trade costs …Why is it that exporter productivity premia (EPP) differ so widely in size? We take this question to the theory and to … the data. We derive the sectoral EPP in a standard heterogeneous firms trade model and apply the insights from the model …
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This paper analyses the effect of competition from low-wage countries on domestic activity, using data on 230 Italian manufacturing sectors between 1995 and 2007. We find that low-wage import penetration is negatively related to employment and other measures of activity. The effect is...
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productivity shifts arising from migration-induced knowledge diffusion and increased workforce diversity. While we find evidence … supporting all three channels (at both the intensive and the extensive margins of trade), our framework allows to gauge their …
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transaction costs, and the productivity shifts arising from migrationinduced knowledge diffusion and increased workforce diversity …. While we find evidence supporting all three channels (at both the intensive and the extensive margins of trade), our …
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, procompetitive effect of trade on total factor productivity (TFP). However, as in the 1990s, these gains do not seem to have been … limits of trade policy in boosting employment and long-term productivity growth. Policymakers should manage their … findings from the literature on how productivity, innovation, and employment were impacted by the Great Liberalizationa period …
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productivity shifts arising from migration-induced knowledge diffusion and increased workforce diversity. While we find evidence … supporting all three channels (at both the intensive and the extensive margins of trade), our framework allows to gauge their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012619294
transaction costs, and the productivity shifts arising from migrationinduced knowledge diffusion and increased workforce diversity …. While we find evidence supporting all three channels (at both the intensive and the extensive margins of trade), our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013455237