Using firm level data on Italian manufacturing industry, we examine how trade activities are related to workforce … consistent with multi-attribute models on firm heterogeneity and trade. In fact we show that even after controlling for various … workers than non exporters. Second, we consider the engagement of firms in international transactions, either by means of …

dissimilarity measures instead of rank correlations, we observe a great deal of variability among the product-mixes a firm exports …

The paper examines the causal effect of financial constraints on firm exports. We exploit a firm-level proxy of … strategy allows to cure for self-selection into exports and endogeneity of financial constraints. At the same time, we can … exports of within firm changes in financial constraints status. We find that financial constraints produce a sizable reduction …

In the last decades, international trade has increased between industrialised countries and between high- and low …-wage countries. This important change has raised questions on how international trade affects the labour market. In this spirit, this … paper aims to investigate the impact of international trade on wage dispersion in a small open economy. It is one of the few …

In the last decades, international trade has increased between industrialised countries and between high- and low …-wage countries. This important change has raised questions on how international trade affects the labour market. In this spirit, this … paper aims to investigate the impact of international trade on wage dispersion in a small open economy. It is one of the few …

In the last decades, international trade has increased between industrialised countries and between high- and low …-wage countries. This important change has raised questions on how international trade affects the labour market. In this spirit, this … paper aims to investigate the impact of international trade on wage dispersion in a small open economy. It is one of the few …