wages approaches the issue from the production side of general equilibrium (skill-biased technical change, international …

wages approaches the issue from the production side of general equilibrium (skill-biased technical change, international …

composition and wages. We contribute to empirical research on these issues in three ways. First, we provide novel evidence that is … firm characteristics, including size and capital intensity, exporters still pay higher wages and employ more skilled … exports, imports or a combination of the two. We show that failing to control for the importing activities may bias upward …

This paper studies how a positive export shock - the sharp increase in garment-sector exports that began at the end of … local labor market effects (wages and informality) and estimates from wage equations that reflect the predictions from long … of sector and geography. Wages increased and informality decreased in sub-districts more exposed to the export shock …

. We motivate the analysis through a stylized model where wages depend on worker productivity, and men have a comparative … driven by trade with gender-unequal countries; we find no impact on the gender wage gap when firms increase their exports to …