Felbermayr, Gabriel; Prat, Julien; Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
We introduce search unemployment à la Pissarides into Melitz (2003) model of trade with heterogeneous firms. We allow wages to be individually or collectively bargained and analytically solve for the equilibrium. We find that the selection effect of trade influences labor market outcomes....