Search Results - subject:"SECTOR LEVEL"

Foreign direct investment and productivity : a cross-country, multisector analysis

Desbordes, Rodolphe; Franssen, Loe - In: Asian development review 36 (2019) 1, pp. 54-79

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Heterogeneous labor demand: sectoral elasticity and trade effects in the U.S., Germany and Sweden.

Judzik, Dario - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper analyzes labor demand at the sector level in the U.S., Germany and Sweden in two ways: by providing new …, agriculture and fuel. The elasticity is computed through a standard fixedeffects model and then by taking a semi-pooling sector-level … approach (i.e., by flexibilizing the coefficient homogeneity assumption). Most sector-level elasticities differ largely from …

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Trade Liberalization, Democratization and Technology Adoption

Cervellati, Matteo; Naghavi, Alireza; Toubal, Farid - Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations … - 2014

We study the role of trade liberalization, democratization and their interaction for technology adoption. A general equilibrium theory with heterogeneous skills predicts a complementarity between trade and political regimes. Openness should accelerate technology adoption if coupled with...

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