Aggregate Productivity, Human–Capital Investments, and Trade
| Title: | Aggregate Productivity, Human–Capital Investments, and Trade |
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| Authors: | Benjamin Weigert; Jel–code F I |
| Contributors: | The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives |
| Source: | http://cms.uni-kassel.de/unicms/fileadmin/groups/w_030515/Aggregate_productivity_vers06081.pdf. |
| Publication Year: | 2008 |
| Collection: | CiteSeerX |
| Subject Terms: | Heterogeneous firms; education; gains from trade |
| Description: | We develop an alternative mechanism to explain the distribution of produc-tivities across firms and their self–selection with respect to export activities. The mechanism is based on the decisions about acquiring education made by heterogeneous individuals. Our framework thus integrates standard ap-proaches developed in heterogeneous–firms trade theory, and extends it by applying different specifications of preferences. Most importantly, the im-pact of trade liberalization on the self–selection of firms is fully preserved by our model. However, welfare results in heterogeneous–firm trade mod-els are not robust with respect to the modeling of preferences and firm heterogeneities. |
| Document Type: | text |
| File Description: | application/pdf |
| Language: | English |
| Relation: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.518.9308 |
| Availability: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.518.9308; http://cms.uni-kassel.de/unicms/fileadmin/groups/w_030515/Aggregate_productivity_vers06081.pdf |
| Rights: | Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. |
| Accession Number: | edsbas.DC1516BA |
| Database: | BASE |