Trade, Firms, and Wages: Theory and Evidence

By M. Amiti, Donald R. Davis. 2008

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Made in China, Sold in Norway: Local Labor Market Effects of an Import Shock (2015, neutral): “Elsewhere, Amiti and Davis (2012) examine the effects of tariff cuts in Indonesia, and find that the wage effects for workers depend on both the type of tariffs being reduced and the export or import orientation of the firms, while Hummels, Jorgensen, Munch and Xiang (2014) consider firm-level offsh”
Trade Adjustment: Worker Level Evidence (2014, neutral): “…groups (Jacobson, LaLonde and Sullivan, 1993; Chan and Stevens, 2001; von Wachter, 14See Bernard, Jensen, and Schott (2006), Verhoogen (2008), Amiti and Davis (2012), and Hummels, Jorgensen, Munch, and Xiang (2011) on trade shocks at the firm level; Goldberg and Pavcnick (2003), Artuc,…”
The Impact of Chinese Import Competition on the Local Structure of Employment and Wages: Evidence from France (2017, positive): “Amiti and Davis (2012) shows that, following a trade liberalization episode in Indonesia,”
Matching and Inequality in the World Economy (2010, positive): “…and inequality in monopolistically competitive environments with ex ante homogeneous workers, heterogeneous firms, and labor market imperfections (see, e.g., Davis and Harrigan 2007; Amiti and Davis 2008; Sethupathy 2008; Egger and Kreickemeier 2009; Helpman, Itskhoki, and Redding, forthcoming).”
The Impact of Trade on Inequality in Developing Countries (2017, positive): “In addition, workers in firms that import intermediate inputs tend to earn higher wages than workers in firms that only source inputs domestically (Amiti and Davis 2012).”
Higher wages in exporting firms: self-selection, export effect, or both? First evidence from linked employer-employee data (2010, positive): “Furthermore, Amiti and Davis (2008) introduce a fair-wage effort model into the Melitz framework and, in addition, provide some evidence for their theoretical hypotheses using Indonesian data.”
The Wage Effects of Offshoring: Evidence from Danish Matched Worker-Firm Data (2014, neutral): “Important examples include Amiti and Davis (2011), Martins and Opromolla (2009), and Krishna et al.”
Industry Dynamics and Competition from Low-Wage Countries: Evidence on Italy (2014, neutral): “(Amiti and Konings, 2007, Amiti and Davis, 2008, Topalova and Khandelwal, 2011).”
Firm Dynamics, Job Turnover, and Wage Distributions in an Open Economy (2016, neutral): “…Kreickemeier 2009; Helpman, Itskhoki, and Redding 2010; Helpman et al. 2012; Felbermayr, Prat, and Schmerer 2011; Fajgelbaum 2013; Davis and Harrigan 2011; and Amiti and Davis 2012).6 Among these papers, our model 3Rodrik (1996) makes a related argument, though he points to different mechanisms.”
International trade and firm performance: a survey of empirical studies since 2006 (2012, background): “(2010) for Brazil; and Amiti and Davis (2008) for Indonesia.”
Export Markets and Labor Allocation in a Low-Income Country (2018, positive): “…performing firms tend to pay higher wages, for example, due to efficiency wage or profit-sharing (Verhoogen (2008), Davis and Harrigan (2007), Amiti and Davis (2012)). formal employers within Vietnamese industries, as well as how BTA-induced tariff cuts affected net reallocation of jobs…”