Mion, Giordano and Opromolla, Luca David (2011) Managers' mobility, trade status, and wages. Centre for Economic Policy Research (DP8230). Centre for Economic Policy Research (Great Britain), London, UK.
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This paper investigates whether the arrival of managers with export experience, i.e. experience acquired through participation in the export activity of previous employers, is related to firms' international trade status and to what extent this relationship is of a causal nature. We construct a worker-firm matched panel dataset which enables us to track managers across different firms over time and observe firms' trading stance as well as a large set of workers' and firms' characteristics. Contrary to blue and white collars, we find that managers are paid a sizeable premium for export experience which has both a level and a trend component. Conditioning for the firm past trade status, we find that a one standard deviation increase in the firm's share of managers' with export experience corresponds to about 35% more chances of starting to export. The impact is stronger for larger firms and is roughly of the same order of magnitude of the firm productivity effect. On the contrary, export experience acquired by managers from previous employers positively affects the capacity to keep exporting in small firms only. To give a causality flavor to our findings, we use in a final step an IV strategy that mimics a random matching between managers with export experience and firms. IV estimations indicate that export experience matters even more for entry while it has no effect on exit.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Discussion Paper) |
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| Official URL: | http://www.cepr.org/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2011 The Authors |
| Divisions: | Geography & Environment Spatial Economics Research Centre Centre for Economic Performance |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory |
| JEL classification: | F - International Economics > F1 - Trade > F10 - General J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J3 - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs > J31 - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials by Skill, Training, Occupation, etc. J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J6 - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies > J60 - General L - Industrial Organization > L2 - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior > L25 - Firm Performance: Size, Diversification and Scope, Age, Profit, and Sales M - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting > M5 - Personnel Economics > M50 - General |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Jul 2012 14:03 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Sep 2024 20:19 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/44821 |
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