Job creation, job destruction and firms’ international trade involvement

Mauro Pisu

No 130, Working Paper Research from National Bank of Belgium

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Heterogeneous firms; Job reallocation; Imports; Exports; FDI (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F16 J63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 46 pages
Date: 2008-03
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