Technology Adoption, Export Status, and Skill Upgrading: Theory and Evidence

Review of International Economics - Tập 20 Số 2 - Trang 315-331 - 2012
María Bas1,2
1CEPII (Centre d'Etudes Prospectives et d'Informations Internationales) and Paris School of Economics (PSE). Postal: 113, rue de Grenelle 75007 Paris, France
2I am grateful to Philippe Aghion, Andrew Bernard, Karolina Ekholm, Philippe Martin, Thierry Mayer, Emanuel Ornelas, Nina Pavcnik, Xavier Ragot, Frédéric Robert-Nicoud, Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann, Henry Overman, James R. Tybout and Thierry Verdier for their helpful comments. I would also like to thank Juan Carluccio, Holger Breinlich, Gregory Corcos, Swati Dhingra, Ivan Ledezma.

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AbstractThis paper develops a model of trade that features heterogeneous firms, technology choice and different types of skilled labor in a general equilibrium framework to explain within‐industry increase in the relative demand for skilled workers. Its main contribution is to investigate the impact of firms' export and technology choice decisions on skill upgrading. Only firms in the upper range of the productivity distribution produce for the foreign market using high‐technology. Since this technology is skilled‐biased, exporters that resort to modern technologies are more skill intensive. Empirical evidence is also provided to support the model's main predictions using plant‐level panel data from Chile's manufacturing sector (1990–1999).

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Review of International Economics

Tập 20 Số 2

315-331

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