| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w15995 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 15995 |
| Exports, Export Destinations, and Skills | |
| Irene Brambilla; Daniel Lederman; Guido Porto | |
| 发表日期 | 2010-05-13 |
| 出版年 | 2010 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper explores the links between exports, export destinations and skill utilization by firms. We identify two mechanisms behind these links, which we integrate into a unified theory of export destinations and skills. First, exporting to high-income countries with higher valuation for quality leads to quality upgrades that are skill-intensive (Verhoogen, 2008). Second, exporting requires services such as distribution, transportation, and advertising, activities that are also intensive in skilled labor (Matsuyama, 2007). Depending on the characteristics of the source country (such as income, language), the theories suggest a skill-bias in export destinations: firms that export to high-income destinations hire more skills and pay higher wages than firms that export to middle-income countries or that sell domestically. We test the theory using a panel of Argentine manufacturing firms. The data cover the period 1998-2000 and span the Brazilian currency devaluation of 1999. We use the exogenous changes in exports and export destinations brought about by this devaluation in a major export partner to identify the causal effect of exporting and of exporting to high-income countries on skill utilization. We find that Argentine firms exporting to high-income countries hired a higher proportion of skilled workers and paid higher average wages than other exporters (to non high-income countries) and domestic firms. Instead, we cannot identify any causal effect of exporting per se on skill utilization. |
| 主题 | International Economics ; Trade |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w15995 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/573669 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Irene Brambilla,Daniel Lederman,Guido Porto. Exports, Export Destinations, and Skills. 2010. |
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| w15995.pdf（289KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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