Exporters, engineers, and blue-collar workers (English)

This paper investigates differences in the composition of employment between exporting and non-exporting firms. In particular, it asks whether exporting firms hire more engineers relative to blue-collar workers than non-exporting firms. In a stylized partial-equilibrium model, firms produce goods of varying quality and exporters tend to produce higher quality goods, which are intensive in engineers relative to blue-collar workers. Firms are heterogeneous...

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Brambilla,Irene;

Lederman,Daniel;

Porto,Guido;
Document Date
2016/05/31
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS7686
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Chile,
Region
Latin America and Caribbean,
Disclosure Date
2016/05/31
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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Exporters, engineers, and blue-collar workers
Keywords
blue-collar worker

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Brambilla,Irene; Lederman,Daniel; Porto,Guido.

Exporters, engineers, and blue-collar workers (English). Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 7686 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/576391467994700405

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