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It is widely believed that globalization affects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To provide evidence for this, we analyze the effect of firms' exporting behavior on the elasticity of labor demand. Using rich, German administrative linked employer-employee panel...
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Unions are often stigmatized as being a source of inefficiency due to higher collective bargaining outcomes. This is in stark contrast with the descriptive evidence presented in this paper. Larger firms choose to export and are also more likely to adopt collective bargaining. We rationalize...
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Trade and growth theories predict a mutual causation of innovation and exports. We test empirically whether innovation … causes exports using a uniquely rich German micro dataset. Our instrumental-variable strategy identifies variation in …
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, those directly involved with international markets show better recovery than the ones that were indirectly involved. These …
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quantify the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The framework provides the first panel …Migration and trade are often linked through ethnic networks boosting bilateral trade. This study uses migration to … estimates connecting country-industry productivity and exports, and the study exploits heterogeneous technology diffusion from …
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Manufacturing accounts for more than three-quarters of U.S. corporate patents. The competitive shock to this sector emanating from China's economic ascent could in theory either augment or stifle U.S. innovation. Using three decades of U.S. patents matched to corporate owners, we quantify how...
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contracts, mitigating information frictions in international trade. There is little evidence for the relaxation of financial …We investigate how international patent activity enables firms from emerging economies to thrive in the global …
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This paper analyzes international antitrust enforcement when multinational firms operate in several markets with …
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An empirical overview of the UNESCO World Heritage List according to various characteristics is presented. The officially stated intention of the World Heritage List is to protect global heritage. Our focus is on the imbalance of the existing List according to countries and continents. The...
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