Job Creation, Job Destruction and Firms’ International Trade Involvement
National Bank of Belgium Working Paper No. 130
46 Pages Posted: 3 Oct 2010
Date Written: March 17, 2008
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
JEL Classification: F16, J63
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