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We estimate the effect of imported machines on the wages of machine operators utilizing Hungarian linked employer … the worker. We find that workers exposed to imported machines earn about 8 percent higher wages than other machine …
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We use linked employer-employee data from Italy to explore the relationship between exports and wages. Our empirical …' incentives to export. The results indicate that the export wage premium is due to exporting firms both (1) paying a wage premium … document that the export wage premium is larger for workers with more export-related experience. This indicates that the …
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Internationally active firms rely intensively on trade credits even though they are considered particularly expensive. This phenomenon has been little explored so far. Our theoretical analysis shows that trade credits can alleviate financial constraints arising from asymmetric information...
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. Second, country net exports in expensive and cheap labor commodity groups are regressed on country wages. Finally, country … wage countries will export goods intensive in skilled labor (a hierarchy is proposed from 'expensive', skilled … 'expensiveness', country uvis are regressed on country wages for SITC 3-digit groups in textiles, machinery, and electrical apparatus …
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This Paper estimates the cross-price elasticity of exports with respect to investment costs for bilateral relations … between 36 countries. We show that the effect of reducing foreign direct investment costs on exports depends on country … and trade costs are low, investment liberalization stimulates exports, whereas when countries are similar in terms of …
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Increasing wage inequality between similar workers plays an important role for overall inequality trends in industrialized societies. To analyze this pattern, we incorporate directed labor market search into a dynamic model of international trade with heterogeneous firms and homogeneous workers....
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. Larger firms pay higher wages and exporters pay higher wages than non-exporters. The opening of trade enhances wage …
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substitute. The model gives an intuitive explanation for the empirical regularities that skill intensity, market size and wages …
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International economic integration is often blamed for the deteriorating fortunes of unskilled workers in industrial countries. We look at the labour market impact of trade and foreign direct investment in the case of Italy. Our empirical framework allows for trade, technology and factor supply...
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This research argues that the rapid expansion of international trade in the second phase of the industrial revolution has played a major role in the timing of demographic transitions across countries and has thereby been a significant determinant of the distribution of world population and a...
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