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and the value of CAT exports responds differently to variation in firm productivity and trade costs than does the export … relationship between the margins of trade and firm productivity, both across firms and within firms over time. In addition, we … export data at the firm-product level, we discover new and, heretofore, unknown facts about multi-product manufacturing …
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estimation results, we relate productivity estimates with import competition, using firm and product level measures of import … competition. We find that if productivity at the firm level tends to positively react to increased import competition, the multi … efficiency in producing that core product, in which it has a productivity advantage. However, when the degree of foreign …
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and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm's innovation … and export activities, using unique firm survey data which provides direct measures for innovations and firm …-specific financial constraints. We find that financial constraints restraint heability of domestically owned firms to innovate and export …
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productivity, the skill mix of the workforce and wages using micro data for the U.S. and Germany. We find support to the idea that … is evidenced in a greater dispersion in productivity and related key business choices. We also find that the mean impact … of adopting new technology on productivity and wages is greater the in U.S. than in Germany. …
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oil prices that has a stronger impact on its export competitors. This is due to the large labor force surplus of China. We … export competitiveness, together with the oil price, productivity, real exchange rate, and foreign industrial production over … world markets, despite China being an oil importing country. In this paper we develop a theoretical model that explains the …
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. Globalization is shown to induce heterogeneous responses across firms in terms of scope and productivity, some of which are …
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We study firms' advertised gender preferences in a population of ads on a Chinese internet job board, and interpret …
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Can having more education than a job requires reduce one's chances of being offered the job? We study this question in a sample of applications to jobs that are posted on an urban Chinese website. We find that being overqualified in this way does not reduce the success rates of...
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One of the most important predictions made in recent international trade literature based on heterogeneous firms concerns the within-industry job reallocation from firms not involved in international markets to those that are. This paper quantifies the extent of this reallocation using a dataset...
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In this paper a semiparametric stochastic metafrontier approach is used to obtain insight into firmlevel competitiveness in Europe. We differ from standard TFP studies at the firm level as we simultaneously allow for inefficiency, noise and do not impose a functional form on the input-output...
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