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research, we also measure the indirect labour market effects stemming from increased export competition in third markets. Our …-stealing' channel. In contrast to evidence for other countries, the direct effects of Chinese import competition are mostly non …
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we study the drivers of knowledge diffusion by looking at the dynamics of the export basket of countries, with particular … terms of ability to expand the export basket of countries, a migrant with college education or above is about ten times more …
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During the early 1990s Germany offered temporary protection to over 600,000 Yugoslavian refugees fleeing war. By 2000, many had been repatriated. We exploit this natural experiment to investigate the role of migrants in post-conflict reconstruction in the former Yugoslavia, using exports as...
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The transition into non-traditional export activities attracts important policy and academic attention. Using … international trade data, we explore how alternative linkages relate to the take-off and acceleration of export industries … labor. Technology has a predictive power depending on the specification used. We consistently find, however, that export …
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The analysis of the effects of firm-level international trade on wages has so far focused on the role of exports, which are also typically treated as a composite good. However, we show in this paper that firm-level imports can actually be a wage determinant as important as exports. Furthermore,...
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This paper analyses to what extent working conditions in foreign-owned firms differ from those in their domestic counterparts. It makes three main contributions. First, we replicate the consensus in the empirical literature by applying a standardised methodology to firm-level data for three...
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