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Self-Selection into Export Markets by Business Services Firms: Evidence from France, Germany and the United Kingdom

Temouri, Yama; Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This study reports results from an empirical investigation of business services sector firms that (start to) export, comparing exporters to firms that serve the national market only. We estimate identically specified empirical models using comparable enterprise level data from France, Germany,...

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Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Diasporas and Exports

Bratti, Massimiliano; De Benedictis, Luca; Santoni, Gianluca - 2018

immigrant entrepreneurs have a positive, significant and economically meaningful effect on exports. We find that increasing the … stock of (non-entrepreneur) immigrants by 10% would lead to a 1.7% increase in exports in manufacturing towards immigrants …' countries of origin, while increasing the number of immigrant entrepreneurs in manufacturing by 10% would raise exports by about …

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Financial Liberalization and the Relationship-Specificity of Exports

Defever, Fabrice; Suedekum, Jens - 2013

use relationship-specific inputs, and lowered exports of industries using standardized inputs. …

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Financial Liberalization and the Relationship-Specificity of Exports

Defever, Fabrice; Suedekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

use relationship‐specific inputs, and lowered exports of industries using standardized inputs. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010764593

Adopting Mobile Money: Evidence from an Experiment in Rural Africa

Batista, Catia; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2020

Who uses mobile money? What is mobile money used for? This paper describes the mobile money adoption patterns following the experimental introduction of mobile money for the first time in rural areas of Southern Mozambique. We use a combination of administrative and household survey data to...

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Exporting Firms Do Not Pay Higher Wages, Ceteris Paribus : First Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Wagner, Joachim; Schnabel, Claus; Schank, Thorsten - 2004

18 studies using data from 20 highly developed, developing, and less developed countries document that average wages in exporting firms are higher than in non-exporting firms from the same industry and region. The existence of these so-called exporter wage premia is one of the stylized facts...

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The Impacts of Trade Liberalization on Employment and Wages in Tunisian Industries

Haouas, Ilham; Yagoubi, Mahmoud; Heshmati, Almas - 2003

This paper investigates short and long-run effects of trade liberalization on employment and wages. Employment and wage equations are estimated using data (1971?96) for importable and exportable sectors in Tunisia. Causality tests show that causality is unidirectional. Wages strongly causes...

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Higher wages in exporting firms: self-selection, export effect, or both? ; first evidence from German linked employer employee data

Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2008

While it is a stylized fact that exporting firms pay higher wages than non-exporting firms, the direction of the link between exporting and wages is less clear. Using a rich set of German linked employer-employee panel data we follow over time plants that start to export. We show that the...

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Exporting Firms Do Not Pay Higher Wages, Ceteris Paribus. First Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763791

The Impacts of Trade Liberalization on Employment and Wages in Tunisian Industries

Haouas, Ilham; Yagoubi, Mahmoud; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

This paper investigates short and long-run effects of trade liberalization on employment and wages. Employment and wage equations are estimated using data (1971–96) for importable and exportable sectors in Tunisia. Causality tests show that causality is unidirectional. Wages strongly causes...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762106