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Wage Premia and Skill Upgrading in Italy: Why Didn't the Hound Bark?

Manasse, Paolo; Stanca, Luca; Turrini, Alessandro Antonio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

find that the export status of firms plays a key role in explaining labour market dynamics, as exporters account for most … conventional view that emphasizes the role of labour market institutions, as opposed to trade and technology, in determining wage …

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Importing Jobs or Exporting Firms? A Close Look at the Labour Market Implications of Italy's Trade and Foreign Direct Investment Flows

Faini, Riccardo; Falzoni, Anna M; Galeotti, Marzio; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

countries. We look at the labour market impact of trade and foreign direct investment in the case of Italy. Our empirical …'s labour market problems. Indeed, given that Italy holds quite a distinct pattern of trade specialization, compared to other … industrialized countries, international integration as reflected in falling import prices may have boosted the demand for labour …

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Job Creation, Job Destruction, and the International Division of Labour

Jansen, Marion; Turrini, Alessandro Antonio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

We incorporate equilibrium unemployment due to imperfect matching into a model of trade in intermediate inputs (Ethier (1982)). Firms are assumed to be price takers and their size is given by technology. Firms enter the market as long as expected profits cover the search cost they incur...

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Firm Dynamics, Job Turnover, and Wage Distributions in an Open Economy

Cosar, Kerem; Guner, Nezih; Tybout, James R - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper explores the combined effects of reductions in trade frictions, tariffs, and firing costs on firm dynamics, job turnover, and wage distributions. It uses establishment-level data from Colombia to estimate an open economy dynamic model that links trade to job flows in a new way. The...

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Heterogeneous Workers and International Trade

Grossman, Gene - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

In this paper, I survey the recent theoretical literature that incorporates heterogeneous labor into models of international trade. The models with heterogeneous labor have been used to study how talent dispersion can be a source of comparative advantage, how the opening of trade affects the...

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Firm Dynamics and Residual Inequality in Open Economies

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Impullitti, Giammario; Prat, Julien - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

Increasing wage inequality between similar workers plays an important role for overall inequality trends in industrialized societies. To analyze this pattern, we incorporate directed labor market search into a dynamic model of international trade with heterogeneous firms and homogeneous workers....

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Matching and Sorting in a Global Economy

Grossman, Gene; Helpman, Elhanan; Kircher, Philipp - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

We develop a neoclassical trade model with heterogeneous factors of production. We consider a world with two factors, labor and "managers", each with a distribution of ability levels. Production combines a manager of some type with a group of workers. The output of a unit depends on the types of...

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Inequality and Unemployment in a Global Economy

Helpman, Elhanan; Itskhoki, Oleg; Redding, Stephen J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper develops a new framework for examining the distributional consequences of international trade that incorporates firm and worker heterogeneity, search and matching frictions in the labor market, and screening of workers by firms. Larger firms pay higher wages and exporters pay higher...

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International Welfare and Employment Linkages Arising from Minimum Wages

Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter; Markusen, James R. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

We formulate a two-country model with monopolistic competition and heterogeneous firms to reconsider labor market linkages in open economies. Labor-market imperfections arise by virtue of country-specific real minimum wages. Two principal experiments are considered. First, we show that trade...

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Trade, Wages, and Superstars

Manasse, Paolo; Turrini, Alessandro Antonio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

We study the effect of 'globalization' on wage inequality. Our 'global' economy resembles Rosen's (1981) 'Superstars' economy, where a) innovations in production and communication technologies enable suppliers to reach a larger mass of consumers and to improve the (perceived) quality of their...

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