The paper examines the determinants of the division of labor within firms. It provides an explanation of the pervasive …

features. First, effective labor is modeled as the product of a quantity measure - number of employees with a given level of … education - and a quality index, depending on, i.a., demographic characteristics and fields-of-study. Second, low-skilled labor … for four categories of labor, two types of capital and intermediate goods. The empirical application covers 24 industries …

provide evidence for this, we analyze the effect of firms’ exporting behavior on the elasticity of labor demand. Using rich … extensive margins significantly increases the (absolute value of the) unconditional own-wage labor demand elasticity. This is …

labor force. Low-wage workers churn primarily among manufacturing sectors, where they are repeatedly exposed to subsequent … to move out of manufacturing conditional on separation. These findings reveal that import shocks impose substantial labor …