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This paper investigates short and long-run effects of trade liberalization on employment and wages. Employment and wage … of labour increased dramatically in Tunisia as women entered the labour market. This allowed importable employment to be …
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This paper investigates short and long-run effects of trade liberalization on employment and wages. Employment and wage … of labour increased dramatically in Tunisia as women entered the labour market. This allowed importable employment to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762106
participation using the Bartik (1991) approach. Our results suggest that imports are not to blame for disappointing labor market …Egypt's industries heavily rely on imported goods for production. Thus, an increase in imports could have a potentially … positive effect on the labor market as it means more inputs for the production of exporting goods. Alternatively, minimal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470389
document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the … world market for goods. Furthermore, for the first time the direction of causality in this relationship is investigated … imports ('learning-by-importing'). We find a positive link between importing and productivity. From an empirical model with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269066
exports (per worker) are strongly and causally related to income risk: Imports increase risk and exports decrease risk, and …In this paper, we empirically assess the causal relationship between trade and individual income risk and study the … capital. Accounting for entry-cohort effects and age effects, our findings suggest that within-industry changes in imports and …
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activities - exports, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from …This paper documents for the first time the relationship between profitability and three types of international trade … Germany, one of the leading actors on the world market for goods, that merge information from surveys performed by the …
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This paper documents the relationship between firm survival and three types of international trade activities - exports …, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from Germany, one of the … leading actors on the world market for goods, that merge information from surveys performed by the Statistical Offices and …
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on trade. The migrant elasticity of imports is larger than that of exports in about half the countries considered, but … distribution of immigration elasticities of imports and exports across 48 studies that yielded 300 observations. The results show … the publication bias and heterogeneity-corrected elasticity is slightly larger for exports than for imports. …
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This paper examines international technology transfers using firm-level data across 43 developing countries. Our findings show that exporting and importing activities are important channels for the transfer of technology. Majority foreign-owned firms are less likely to engage in technological...
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document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the … world market for goods. Furthermore, for the first time the direction of causality in this relationship is investigated … imports ('learning-by-importing'). We find a positive link between importing and productivity. From an empirical model with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822289