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Exporting and labor demand : micro-level evidence from Germany
Lichter, Andreas; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2014
It is widely believed that globalization affects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To provide evidence for this, we analyze the effect of firms' exporting behavior on the elasticity of labor demand. Using rich, German administrative linked employer-employee panel...
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Imports and exports at the level of the firm : evidence from Belgiume
Muûls, Mirabelle (contributor); Pisu, Mauro (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003485109
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On the suitability of alternative competitiveness indicators for explaining real exports of advanced economies
Fischer, Christoph; Hossfeld, Oliver; Radeck, Karin - 2016
Real exports are commonly specified as depending on an indicator of price competitiveness and on a measure of foreign … activity. This study empirically investigates the suitability of alternative competitiveness indicators in explaining real … exports for a broad group of advanced economies. To this end, a panel cointegration analysis is conducted, augmented by a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011541055
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Product mix and firm productivity responses to trade competition
Mayer, Thierry; Melitz, Marc J.; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P. - 2016
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The spillover effect of services offshoring on local labour markets
Magli, Martina - 2022
I provide new empirical evidence on the direct and indirect impact of services offshoring on local employment and wages, using a unique dataset on firms in the UK for the period 2000-2015. Exploiting variation in firms' services offshoring across labour markets, I show positive aggregate local...
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Opposing firm-level responses to the China shock : horizontal competition versus vertical relationships
Aghion, Philippe; Bergeaud, Antonin; Lequien, Matthieu; … - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012614409
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Trade and competition : mark-ups, concentration, and international orientation : discussion and empirical test for Brazilian manufacturing sectors
Oliveira, Glauco Avelino Sampaio - 2022
-up -, prices in excess to costs (PCM), among of which stand out import penetration and the export orientation of sectors. In … show relevant statistical significance of explanatory variables in different estimation methods (OLS, Fixed and Random …
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The life-cycle dynamics of exporters and multinational firms
Gumpert, Anna; Moxnes, Andreas; Ramondo, Natalia; … - 2017
differ from those in an export-only model. Calibrating our model to rich firm-level data from France and Norway, our main …
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Industrial change, stability of relative earnings, and substitution of unskilled labor in West-Germany
Steiner, Viktor; Mohr, Robert D. - 1998
We analyze the dramatic decline of the employment share of unskilled labor in the West German economy, in particular its relation to the relatively rigid earnings structure. We find that the substitution elasticity between unskilled and skilled labor is rather low in most sectors of the economy....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441629
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Trade exposure and the decline in collective bargaining : evidence from Germany
Baumgarten, Daniel; Lehwald, Sybille - 2019
We analyze the effect of the increase in trade exposure induced by the rise of China and the transformation of Eastern Europe on collective bargaining coverage of German plants in the period 1996-2008. We exploit cross-industry variation in trade exposure and use trade flows of other high-income...
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