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The Economic Value of Cultural Diversity: Evidence from US cities

Ottaviano, GianMarco; Peri, Giovanni - Econometric Society - 2004

We use data on wages and rents in different U.S. cities to assess the amenity effects on production and consumption of cultural diversity as measured by diversity of countries of birth of city residents. We show that US-born citizens living in metropolitan areas where the share of foreign-born...

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Total factor productivity and the decision to serve foreign markets: Firm level evidence from France.

Irac, D. - Banque de France - 2008

This paper examines productivity differences between firms doing foreign direct investment (FDI) and domestic firms on … the question of causality between productivity and global expansion. Comparing domestic firms and extra-firm exporters of … goods, we find that pre-entry selection is more important than post-market-entry effects. Pre-entry boosts to productiVity …

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What You Export Matters

Hausmann, Ricardo; Hwang, Jason; Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

When local cost discovery generates knowledge spillovers, specialization patterns become partly indeterminate and the mix of goods that a country produces may have important implications for economic growth. We demonstrate this proposition formally and adduce some empirical support for it. We...

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The Economic Value of Cultural Diversity: Evidence from US Cities

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P.; Peri, Giovanni - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

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Cities and Cultures

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P.; Peri, Giovanni - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

productivity. …

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The quality-complementarity hypothesis: theory and evidence from Colombia

Kugler, Maurice; Verhoogen, Eric A. - 2009

, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this …

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Skills, labour costs and vertically differentiated industries: A general equilibrium analysis

Lutz, Stefan; Turrini, Alessandro - 1999

The effect of labour costs on industry profits, employment and labour income is at the heart of the current European debate on industry competitiveness. High wages paid in European countries such as Germany are generally considered harmful for industry profitability. Though, high wages appear...

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The Impact of Integration on Productivity and Welfare Distortions Under Monopolistic Competition

Dhingra, Swati; Morrow, John - 2012

quantities, variety and productivity. Under constant elasticity of demand, each firm prices above its average cost, yet we show …

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Linkages between technology choice and exporting: Evidence from Argentina

Schmidt, Gabriela; Trofimenko, Natalia - 2010

This paper aids our understanding of the link between innovation and exporting behavior by detailing how firms may purposefully decide on the source country for the imported innovation and the market that they ultimately serve. We argue that firms who invest in the state-of-the-art technologies...

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Skills, labour costs and vertically differentiated industries : a general equilibrium analysis

Lutz, Stefan Heinz Hermann; Turrini, Alessandro - 1999

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