Exporting and Organizational Change

Lorenzo Caliendo, Ferdinando Monte and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

No 23630, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: We study the effect of exporting on the organization of production within firms. Using French employer-employee matched data together with data on a firm’s exporting activity, we find that firms that enter the export market and expand substantially reorganize by adding layers of management, hiring more and paying, on average, lower wages to workers in all pre-existing layers. In contrast, firms that enter the export market and expand little do not reorganize and pay higher average wages in all pre-existing layers. We then present some evidence that these effects are causal using pre-sample variation in the destination composition of exports, in conjunction with real exchange rate variation across countries. Our results are consistent with a growing literature using occupations to study the internal structure of firms and how their organization responds to opportunities in export markets.

JEL-codes: D22 F1 F16 J24 J31 L23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-07
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