Job creation, job destruction and firms’ international trade involvement
One of the most important predictions made in recent international trade literature based on heterogeneous firms concerns the within-industry job reallocation from firms not involved in international markets to those that are. This paper quantifies the extent of this reallocation using a dataset of Belgian manufacturing firms from 1998 to 2004 providing information on their international trading activities. The results suggest that, at three-digit industry levels, the shifts in employment between firms having different trading status account for 6 to 30 percent of total job reallocation. This... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | doc-type:workingPaper |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2008 |
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Brussels: National Bank of Belgium
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Schlagwörter: | ddc:330 / F16 / J63 / Heterogeneous firms / Job reallocation / Imports / Exports / FDI / Auslandsinvestition / Import / Export / Internationaler Markteintritt / Beschäftigungseffekt / Industrie / Schätzung / Belgien |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26543450 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/144343 |
One of the most important predictions made in recent international trade literature based on heterogeneous firms concerns the within-industry job reallocation from firms not involved in international markets to those that are. This paper quantifies the extent of this reallocation using a dataset of Belgian manufacturing firms from 1998 to 2004 providing information on their international trading activities. The results suggest that, at three-digit industry levels, the shifts in employment between firms having different trading status account for 6 to 30 percent of total job reallocation. This effect is stronger for large than for small firms.