aggregate employment. -- structural models ; heterogeneous firms ; fair wages ; labour market imperfections ; exporter wage …, leading to a link between a firm's operating profits and wages of workers employed by this firm. We estimate the parameters of …

hand and wages of workers employed by this firm on the other hand. The latter establishes an exporter wage premium, since … exporters have higher profits, given their productivity, than non-exporting firms. We estimate the parameters of the model in a … in terms of both operating profits and average wages. We also find evidence for gains from trade for all five countries …

. These findings are established through the estimation of a spatial bivariate probit model. …

We adopt a spatial econometric approach to estimate intra- and inter-industry productivity spillovers in total factor … productivity transmitted through input-output relations in a sample of 13 OECD countries and 15 manufacturing industries. Both R …

We use firm-level data for 15 countries and 13 manufacturing sectors to estimate firm-level productivity parameters and … to establish representative country-sector-specific empirical productivity distributions. We use these distributions … of technology in shaping international trade flows. We find that, on average, absolute advantage measured as productivity …