This article investigates differences in the composition of employment between exporting and nonexporting firms. In particular, it asks whether exporting firms hire more engineers relative to blue-collar workers than nonexporting firms. In a stylized partial-equilibrium model, firms produce goods of varying quality and exporters tend to produce higher quality goods, which are intensive in engineers relative to blue-collar workers. Firms are heterogeneous...
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2016/04/10
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Artículo de periódico
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140511
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1
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2019/08/12
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Disclosed
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Exporters, Engineers, and Blue-collar Workers
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blue-collar worker