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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2016/05/31
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Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas
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WPS7686
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2016/05/31
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Disclosed
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Exporters, engineers, and blue-collar workers
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blue-collar worker
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