Managers Mobility, Trade Status, and Wages
Year: 2010
Type: book
Abstract: The transmission of knowledge across firms is typically difficult to measure. By matching employer-employee data with trade data at the firm level, we are able to identify the transmission of export experience, i.e. experience acquired through participation in the export activity of previous employers, and to quantify the impact of this valuable knowledge on workers ’ wages and firms ’ trade status. We find that export experience corresponds to a 5 % wage premium for managers but not for other workers. Most of the premium arises at the time of employer change and it is robust to controlling for a wealth of workers ’ and firms ’ characteristics including worker-trade status fixed effects, past employer size and productivity, and broad employer change patterns. On the employing firm side, we find that export experience positively affects entry into the export activity and matters more than firm size and productivity. A one standard deviation increase of the share of currently employed managers with export experience more than doubles the probability to start exporting. On the contrary, export experience acquired
Authors: Giordano Mion, Luca David Opromolla
Language: English
Topic: Global trade and economics
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2161399012