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Trade Flows, Multilateral Resistance, and Firm Heterogeneity
Behar, Alberto; Nelson, Benjamin D. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
We present a gravity model that accounts for multilateral resistance, firm heterogeneity and country-selection into trade, while accommodating asymmetries in trade flows. A new equation for the proportion of exporting firms takes a gravity form, such that the extensive margin is also affected by...
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Does Public-Sector Employment Fully Crowd Out Private-Sector Employment?
Behar, Alberto; Mok, Junghwan - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
We quantify the extent to which public-sector employment crowds out private-sector employment using specially assembled … private-sector employment rates and high proportions of government-sector employment. Regressions of either private …-sector employment rates or unemployment rates on two measures of public-sector employment point to full crowding out. This means that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790351
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Does Public-Sector Employment Fully Crowd Out Private-Sector Employment?
Behar, Alberto - 2013
We quantify the extent to which public-sector employment crowds out private-sector employment using specially assembled … private-sector employment rates and high proportions of government-sector employment. Regressions of either private …-sector employment rates or unemployment rates on two measures of public-sector employment point to full crowding out. This means that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014409429