From the Invisible Handshake to the Invisible Hand? How Import Competition Changes the Employment Relationship

By Marianne Bertrand. Journal of Labor Economics, 2004

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics

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Really Uncertain Business Cycles (2012, unknown): “To generate industry exchange rates we follow Bertrand (2004) in defining for each industry its trade weighted exchange rate for every major trade destinations.”
Export Destinations and Input Prices (2014, methodology): “This section develops a model of endogenous input and output quality choices by heterogeneous firms in asymmetric countries in which consumers differ in their willingness to pay for product quality, building on the Melitz (2003) framework.”
Exporting and Firm Performance: Chinese Exporters and the Asian Financial Crisis (2010, unknown): “Earlier papers using exchange rate shocks as exogenous variation include Revenga (1992) and Bertrand (2004).”
Competition and the Cost of Debt (2012, unknown): “To verify that a relaxation of tariffs spurs an increase in import penetration, I follow Bertrand (2004) and Irvine and Pontiff (2009) and define import penetration as the total value of imports divided by imports plus domestic production. This variable measures the percent produced by foreign versu”
Competition and Innovation: The Inverted-U Relationship Revisited (2013, unknown): “To address the issue of the endogeneity of competition, I follow Bertrand [2004] and use a source-weighted average of industry exchange rates as an instrument for competition.”
Imperfect Competition in the Labor Market (2011, background): “It also excludes some studies that model the link between measures of rents and wages but measure rents as, for example, a rate of return on capital (e.g. Bertrand, 2004).”
Should Unemployment Insurance Vary with the Unemployment Rate? Theory and Evidence (2016, unknown): “28 Columns (6) through (8) report results using the average UI benefit level; analogous results using the maximum UI benefit level”
The Wage Curve Reloaded (2005, unknown): “Since then, Blanchflower and Oswald’s conclusions have been scrutinized by other researchers (for example, Bellmann and Blien, 2001; Bertrand, 2004; Nijkamp and Poot, 2005).”
Recent Findings on Trade and Inequality (2010, unknown): “Bertrand (2004) follows the implications of this thinking in the context of international trade, showing that where firms face liquidity constraints and can exit due to bankruptcy, an import shock can make employers effectively less patient by raising the probability of bankruptcy and raising their ”
How Does Product Market Competition Shape Incentive Contracts (2005, background): “It is left to future research to evaluate the extent of such changes.”