Recent work demonstrates the importance of developing high quality output in order to compete in export markets and other recent studies verify the prevalence of fixed and ongoing trade costs while participating in those markets. I consider the joint choice of quality and export promotion costs...

We embed a competitive search model with labor market discrimination into a two-sector two-country framework in order to analyze the relationship between international trade and labor market discrimination. Discrimination reduces the matching probability, and output, in the skilled-labor...

We embed a competitive search model with labor market discrimination, or nepotism, into a two-sector, two-country framework in order to analyze how labor market discrimination impacts the pattern of international trade and also how trade trade affects discrimination. Discrimination, or nepotism,...

French Abstract: Signaux sur le marché du travail, menace de stéréotype, et comportement contre‐stéréotype. L'auteur introduit une menace de stéréotype dans un modèle de signalisation des multiples productivités. L'existence de multiples stéréotypes porteurs d'autoréalisation, qui...