Dance with the One that Brought You? Matching and Sorting in a Global Economy

Trade effects the size of firms in the economy differentially. Exporting firms tend to become larger relative to non-exporting firms. This affects different workers in the economy differentially. We develop a two-sided matching model with heterogeneous firms and heterogeneous workers and firm size, and study how the opening to trade effects both firm size and the wage distribution.

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Year of publication:	2012
Authors:	Kircher, Philipp ; Helpman, Elhanan ; Grossman, Gene
Institutions:	Society for Economic Dynamics - SED

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	2012 Meeting Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	The text is part of a series 2012 SED Meeting Papers Number 900
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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