| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w19992 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 19992 |
| Trade, Skills, and Quality Upgrading: A Theory with Evidence from Colombia | |
| Ana Cecília Fieler; Marcela Eslava; Daniel Xu | |
| 发表日期 | 2014-03-20 |
| 出版年 | 2014 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We develop a model of international trade with heterogeneous firms and endogenous quality choices. Producing higher quality involves returns to scale, it is intensive in skilled labor and high-quality inputs. Firms' quality choices are interrelated because firms sell their goods to consumers and to other firms. We estimate the model using data on manufacturing plants in Colombia before the trade liberalization, simulate a counterfactual liberalization and compare the results to post-liberalization data. Like other unilateral trade liberalizations in developing countries, the skill premium and skill intensity in manufacturing increased, and the size of firms decreased in Colombia. In the model, lower tariffs lead importers and exporters to upgrade quality, increasing the domestic demand and supply of high-quality inputs. Other firms then upgrade their own product quality, thereby amplifying these effects of domestic inputs. Relative demand for skilled labor increases in a wide range of firms, despite a contraction in sales. |
| 主题 | International Economics ; Trade |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w19992 |
| 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/577666 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Ana Cecília Fieler,Marcela Eslava,Daniel Xu. Trade, Skills, and Quality Upgrading: A Theory with Evidence from Colombia. 2014. |
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