quantify the impacts of removing the Canada-U.S. border on wages, productivity, markups, the share of exporters, the mass of … endogenously determined wages. Trade integration favors wage convergence, intensifies competition, and forces the least efficient … firms to leave the market, thereby affecting aggregate productivity. Since wage and productivity responses are endogenous …

Canada-US border on regional market aggregates such as wages, productivity, markups, the mass of varieties produced and … elasticity and multiple asymmetric regions, in which trade integration induces wage and productivity changes. Using Canada …-US interregional trade data, we structurally estimate a theory-based gravity equation system featuring endogenous wages and …