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Firm turnover (i.e. firm entry and exit) is a well-recognized source of sectorlevel productivity growth across developing and developed countries. In contrast, the role and importance of firms switching activities from one sector to another is little understood. Firm switchers are likely to be...
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labour productivity and profitability. Our analysis yields puzzling results in contrast with canonical industry dynamics …
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Although wage inequality is a prominent and widely studied issue, the literature is vastly silent on the relationship between firm entry and exit and the wage dispersion between firms. Using a 50% random administrative sample of West German establishments over the period 1976-2017, I study wage...
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Krugman's (1979, 1980) monoplistic competition model of trade showed that countries with more similar per-capita GDP … trade more with each other. Does this mean that developing countries shift trade towards developed countries as a result of … high economic growth? The results reported in this paper challenge the link between per-capita GDP and trade predicted by …
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industry. Only a small minority of the existing studies consider the influence of the location where the new firm has been … controlling for firm and industry characteristics and using a proper representation of the hierarchical structure of geographical …
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