Capital-skill complementarity, productivity and wages: Evidence from plant-level data for a developing country

Yaşar, Mahmut; Paul, Catherine J. Morrison

doi:10.1016/j.labeco.2007.01.001

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“…In particular, our study adds to previous empirical work on Turkey (Demir, 2010(Demir, , 2013Meschi, Taymaz, & Vivarelli, 2011;Yasar & Morrison Paul, 2008) by providing, for the first time, comprehensive evidence regarding the causal effects of importing, exporting, and joint importing and exporting on firm level labor demand, using recent and representative data. The empirical strategy we adopt is based on a combination of Multiple Propensity Score Matching (MPSM) and Difference-in-Differences (DID) estimation.…”

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“…Demir (2010Demir ( , 2013 indeed rely on a sample drawn from the first and second 500 largest Turkish manufacturing firms and Yasar and Morrison Paul (2008)'s analysis rests on sample where the unskilled workers are on average 116 and skilled workers 36. This implies a large average firm size.…”

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“…For example, Yasar and Morrison Paul (2008) find that the adoption of imported machinery is weakly related to the extent of capitalskill complementarity in a sample of about 800 firms in four selected industries (apparel, textiles, motor vehicles and parts, and meat processing) in the 1995-97 period. For the manufacturing sector as a whole, Meschi et al (2011) find that between 1992 and 2001, both exporters and firms belonging to sectors experiencing increasing inflows of foreign inputs from advanced countries displayed higher skilled labor costs as a share of total labor costs.…”

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“…Indeed, no previous work has dealt with firm level importing and exporting simultaneously and none has identified a causal effect of trade on firm labor demand. As for the contemporaneous analysis of firm level import and export activities, Yasar and Morrison Paul (2008) do not address firm level exports in their analysis, while Demir (2010Demir ( , 2013 do not account for imports. Meschi et al (2011) test for both export and import measures, but the import indicator used in the analysis is at the sector level and their focus is limited to the firm skill ratio.…”

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“…However, this expedient may not prove sufficient to identify the causal effect of exporting on employment growth. Furthermore, the samples used by Yasar and Morrison Paul (2008) and Demir (2010Demir ( , 2013 are rather small and biased toward very large firms. 6 Although larger firms trade more and may drive most of the overall effect of trade on employment within manufacturing, the exclusion of medium and small sized firms from the analysis may obscure important information on the relationship investigated.…”

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Summary. -This work investigates the impact of importing, exporting, and two-way trading on firm labor demand in Turkish manufacturing. Adopting Multiple Propensity Score Matching techniques and Difference in Difference estimator, we support the positive internationalization impact on firm employment for an emergent country. Our evidence reveals the existence of complementarity effects between exports and imports, which is strengthened for high trade intensity firms. Furthermore, only high intensity exporting seems to promote the workforce skill upgrading in terms of an increase in the R&D worker share. The employment creation effect of firm internationalization reflects its large positive impact on firm production scale.

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Predictors of foreign corporate political activities in United States politics

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2018

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Research Summary Although there is growing recognition of the importance of nonmarket strategies in ensuring favorable outcomes for firms, most of the research on corporate political activity (CPA) in the U.S. has focused on domestic firms. However, foreign firms are also actively involved in lobbying in the U.S. We identify several predictors of foreign firm CPA using an institutional perspective. Based on a sample of 1,701 publicly listed foreign firms from 37 different countries during the period 1998–2014 and using penalized maximum likelihood and Poisson estimators, we find that the cultural‐cognitive, normative, and regulative institutional characteristics of the home countries of the foreign firms can explain a firm's willingness to engage in CPA in the U.S., over and above firm and industry‐level factors. Managerial Summary There is growing recognition of the importance of nonmarket strategies in ensuring favorable outcomes for firms. However, most of the research on corporate political activity (CPA) in the U.S. has focused on domestic firms. Foreign firms are also active participants in CPA in the U.S. In this article, we try to identify the country‐level predictors of foreign firm CPA, more specifically their lobbying activities, using data on 1,701 publicly listed foreign firms from 37 different countries during the period 1998–2014. Our results indicate that country‐level institutional factors influence a foreign firm's likelihood of engaging in CPA in the U.S. above and beyond more well‐known firm and industry‐level variables.

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A firm level perspective on migration: the role of extra-EU workers in Italian manufacturing

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A production-theory approach to migration is adopted in this paper to address the role of migrant workers from extra-EU countries in Italian manufacturing firms. The adoption of flexible functional forms to model firm-level technology lets us directly derive different measures of elasticity from the coefficients of the estimated production and cost functions. The use of foreign labour is shown to affect the industry composition in favour of low skill intensive sectors and the estimated cross demand elasticities confirm the complementarity between migrant and native workers found in previous studies. However, the two labour inputs prove to be substitutes in terms of the Morishima elasticity of substitution: in general, firms tend to increase the foreign labour intensity of production in response to a decline in migrants’ wage, while the migrant to domestic labour ratio responds to changes in the domestic workers’ wage only for firms in low skill intensive sectors

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Capital-skill complementarity, productivity and wages: Evidence from plant-level data for a developing country

Cited by 18 publications

References 35 publications

Does Trade Foster Employment Growth in Emerging Markets? Evidence from Turkey

Does Trade Foster Employment Growth in Emerging Markets? Evidence from Turkey

Predictors of foreign corporate political activities in United States politics

A firm level perspective on migration: the role of extra-EU workers in Italian manufacturing

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