' earnings impact property crime with an elasticity of -1, but that wages have no impact on violent crime. The paper also … instrumenting real wages of young workers. Using state-year-industry specific technology shocks as instruments yields elasticities …

structure of trade and development. Using data on employment and wages for over seven million workers from sixteen Latin … with the skill premium at the industry level, a result that supports recent trade models linking exports with wages and the …

and pay higher wages than firms that export to middle-income countries or that sell domestically. We test the theory using …This paper explores the links between exports, export destinations and skill utilization by firms. We identify two … mechanisms behind these links, which we integrate into a unified theory of export destinations and skills. First, exporting to …

worker types in-house by posting wages along a job ladder, or rent labor services from contractors who hire in the same … the job ladder, implying that outsourced workers receive lower wages. Using firm-level instruments for outsourcing and …