Trade Costs and Job Flows: Evidence from Establishment-Level Data

José Groizard, Priya Ranjan () and Antonio Rodriguez-Lopez ()
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Priya Ranjan: Department of Economics, University of California-Irvine
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No 111208, Working Papers from University of California-Irvine, Department of Economics

Abstract: We present evidence of the impact of input and output trade liberalization on establishment-level job flows. Using a longitudinal database containing the universe of manufacturing establishments in California from 1992 to 2004, we find that a decline in input or output trade costs causes job destruction in the least productive establishments, job creation in the most productive establishments, and an increase in the death likelihood of the least productive establishments. The evidence is consistent with predictions of models of trade with heterogeneous firms. We also show that input trade liberalization has larger effects on establishment-level job flows than output trade liberalization.

Keywords: Heterogeneous firms; Job flows; Trade costs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F14 F16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 2012-02, Revised 2013-10
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