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Import competition and domestic transport costs

Caragliu, Andrea; Gerritse, Michiel - 2022

With China's 2001 WTO accession, trade costs between the US and China fell sharply, but the transport costs of Chinese imports within the US remained sizable. We argue that domestic transport costs shield local labor markets from globalization. Using a shift-share design for industry-level...

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Waiting for recovery: the Canadian labour market in June 2020

Jones, Stephen R. G.; Lange, Fabian; Riddell, William Craig - 2020

The Canadian labour market is currently emerging from a holding pattern with unusually high numbers in temporary (or "recall") unemployment, those "employed but absent from work" for unspecified reasons, or not in the labour force while waiting to be recalled. Two encouraging signs are evident....

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Distributional consequences of labor demand adjustments to a downturn : a model-based approach with application to Germany 2008 - 09

Bargain, Olivier; Immervoll, Herwig; Peichl, Andreas; … - 2010

Macro-level changes can have substantial effects on the distribution of resources at the household level. While it is possible to speculate about which groups are likely to be hardest-hit, detailed distributional studies are still largely backward-looking. This paper suggests a straightforward...

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Non-monotonic employment effects by market structure and minimum wage level

Devereux, Kevin; Studnicka, Zuzanna - 2024

Minimum wages decrease employment in competitive markets, but can increase it in monopsonistic markets so long as they do not exceed the marginal product of labour. We find evidence of non-monotonicity both by market structure and minimum wage level. Minimum wage hikes initially increase hours...

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Micro-Evidence on the Determinants of Innovation in The Netherlands: The Relative Importance of Absorptive Capacity and Agglomeration Externalities

Smit, Martijn J.; Abreu, Maria A.; de Groot, Henri L.F. - 2010

externalities in explaining variation in innovation rates across firms. More specifically, we combine micro-data and census data to … estimate the probability that a firm will introduce a goods, service or process innovation. We consider internal firm … agglomeration variables are only significant for a few specific sectors, and even then only for some types of innovation. …

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Did bank lending stifle innovation in Europe during the great recession?

Peia, Oana; Romelli, Davide - 2019

external finance, to identify a causal effect of bank credit supply on firm investment in innovation. We show that firms that …

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Allocation of Human Capital and Innovation at the Frontier: Firm-level Evidence on Germany and the Netherlands

Bartelsman, Eric; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Peters, Bettina - 2013

This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the …-technology manufacturing, average innovation performance is higher in all industries in Germany and the innovation performance distributions … investing in product innovation in the majority of industries. Frontier firms enjoy the highest returns to pro duct innovation …

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