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The exporter wage premium when firms and workers are heterogeneous
Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter; Kreickemeier, Udo; Moser, … - 2017
We set up a trade model with heterogeneous firms and a worker population that is heterogeneous in two dimensions: workers are either skilled or unskilled, and within each skill category there is a continuum of abilities. Workers with high abilities, both skilled and unskilled, are matched to...
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A Structural Model of Export Versus Affiliates Production
Kleinert, Jörn; Toubal, Farid - 2005
activities of German multinationals. Proximity-concentration theory which we derive our model from shows that firms face a trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014067053
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Investment subsidies and regional welfare : a dynamic framework
Korzhenevych, Artem; Bröcker, Johannes - 2018
Subsidising investment in lagging regions is an important regional policy instrument in many countries. Some argue that … investment subsidies benefit capital owners who might reside elsewhere, possibly in very rich places. Checking under which … conditions this is true is thus highly policy relevant. The present paper studies regional investment subsidies in a …
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Cross Border and Foreign-Affiliate Sales of Services : Evidence from German Micro-Data
Kelle, Markus - 2012
We merge German balance-of-payments and foreign-affiliate-trade statistics to obtain data about trade in commercial services at the firm level. We use these data to study export market participation and the choice of export mode: cross-border versus foreign affiliate sales. We find that for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013100885
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Cross-Border and Foreign Affiliate Sales of Services : Evidence from German Micro-Data
Kelle, Markus - 2012
We merge German balance-of-payments and foreign-affiliate-trade statistics to obtain data about trade in commercial services at the firm level. We use these data to study export market participation and the choice of export mode: cross-border versus foreign affiliate sales. We find that for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106910
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Cross-border and foreign-affiliate sales of services : evidence from German micro-data
Kelle, Markus; Kleinert, Jörn; Raff, Horst; Toubal, Farid - 2012
investment ; multinational enterprises ; firm heterogeneity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009535116
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Cross-border and foreign-affiliate sales of services : evidence from German micro-data
Kelle, Markus; Kleinert, Jörn; Raff, Horst; Toubal, Farid - 2012
direct investment ; multinational enterprises ; firm heterogeneity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009540827
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The empirical relevance of the new economic geography : testing for a spatial wage structure in Germany
Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Schramm, Marc - 2000
In this paper we want to shed some light on the empirical relevance of the new economic geography. Using one of the central features of the core new economic geography models, namely that wages have the tendency to fall the further one moves away from centres of economic activity, we investigate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009780204
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Intra-Industry Adjustment to Import Competition : Theory and Application to the German Clothing Industry
Raff, Horst - 2009
This paper uses an oligopoly model with heterogeneous firms to examine how an industry adjusts to rising import competition. The model predicts that in the short run the least efficient firms in the industry become inactive, surviving firms face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the...
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