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Martyn Andrews

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Do foreign workers reduce trade barriers? Microeconomic evidence

2015

This paper provides evidence that foreign workers reduce firms' trade costs and thus increase the probability that firms export. This informs both the literature on trade costs and the microeconomic literature on firms' export behaviour. We identify the nationality of each worker in a large sample of German establishments, and relate this to the exporting behaviour of these establishments. We allow for the possible endogeneity of an establishment's workforce by instrumenting the share of foreign workers with the regional distribution of foreign workers in the wider labour market. We find a significant effect of worker nationality on exporting which is not driven by the industrial, occupatio…

Economics and EconometricsLabour economicsbusiness.industry05 social sciencesDistribution (economics)Trade costLarge sampleGravity model of tradeAccounting0502 economics and businessPolitical Science and International RelationsWorkforceEconomicsNationalityEndogeneity050207 economicsTrade barrierbusinessFinance050205 econometrics
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High Wage Workers Match with High Wage Firms: Clear Evidence of the Effects of Limited Mobility Bias

2012

Positive assortative matching implies that high productivity workers and firms match together. However, there is almost no evidence of a positive correlation between the worker and firm contributions in two-way fixed-effects wage equations. This could be the result of a bias caused by standard estimation error. Using German social security records we show that the effect of this bias is substantial in samples with limited inter-firm movement. The correlation between worker and firm contributions to wage equations is unambiguously positive.

Positive assortative matchingMatching (statistics)Labour economicsEconomics and Econometricsmedia_common.quotation_subjectLimited mobility biasWagejel:C23Employer–employee panelsjel:J20language.human_languagejel:J30Social securityGermanlanguageEconomicsfixed effects linked employer-employee panel data limited mobility biasLiterature studyLimited mobilityHigh wageFinancemedia_commonSSRN Electronic Journal
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More hours, more jobs? The employment effects of longer working hours

2014

Increases in standard hours of work have been a contentious policy issue in Germany. Whilst this might directly lead to a substitution of workers by hours, there may also be a positive employment effect due to reduced costs. Moreover, the response of firms may differ between firms that offer overtime and those that do not. For a panel of German plants (2001–2006) drawn from the IAB Establishment Panel, we are the first to analyse the effect of increased standard hours on employment. Using difference-in-difference methods we find that, consistent with theory, overtime plants showed a significant positive employment response, whilst for standard-time plants there is no difference between plan…

Working hoursEconomics and EconometricsLabour economicsmedia_common.quotation_subjectWageworking hours wage concession overtime paymentsjel:C23Overtimefood and beveragesjel:J81Working timeDifference in differencesjel:J23Economicsplant-level data employment working time difference-in-differencesmedia_common
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