全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Size, Trade, Technology and the Division of Labor

G2TT

来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w28969
来源ID	Working Paper 28969
	Size, Trade, Technology and the Division of Labor
	Nuno Limão; Yang Xu
发表日期	2021-06-28
出版年	2021
语种	英语
摘要	We model the implications of the classical ideas that larger markets allow for a finer division of labor and this division feeds back into larger market size. Market size affects specialization due to firm-level increasing returns to scale arising from fixed costs of adopting intermediate-intensive technologies. The impacts are magnified in general equilibrium by an endogenous multiplier—due to input-output linkages in a roundabout structure—and a selection effect due to heterogeneous fundamental productivity and entry costs. Market size expansions imply (i) larger real income gains than under fixed specialization; (ii) an increase in the aggregate variable cost share for intermediates and a decrease for labor; (iii) increased concentration; (iv) increased average productivity for survivors; and (v) an increase in the intermediate trade share. We derive similar results for intermediate productivity improvements. The effects in (ii)-(v) are absent in a similar model with exogenous specialization. In a calibration to U.S. manufacturing in 1987-2007 we isolate trade and intermediate productivity shocks, quantify their effects. Trade cost reductions increased effective market size by 7 log points (lp) and generated (i) a real income gain 1.4 times higher than under exogenous specialization; (ii) increases in the intermediate share in production and trade of 2 lp and a reduction in the labor share of value added of similar magnitude. Two counterfactuals highlight the importance of industrial and trade policy. First, a tax that induces firms to specialize increases real income; so the initial equilibrium is inefficient. Second, an increase in trade costs of 16 lp—similar to the recent trade war—reduces market size and real income substantially: almost half way to trade autarky.
主题	International Economics ; Trade ; International Macroeconomics ; Industrial Organization ; Market Structure and Firm Performance ; Development and Growth ; Country Studies
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w28969
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/586643
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Nuno Limão,Yang Xu. Size, Trade, Technology and the Division of Labor. 2021.

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