Academic Journal
Exporting, Wage Profiles, and Human Capital: Evidence from Brazil
| Title: | Exporting, Wage Profiles, and Human Capital: Evidence from Brazil |
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| Authors: | Xiao Ma, Marc-Andreas Muendler, Alejandro Nakab |
| Source: | Review of Economics and Statistics. 107:1371-1387 |
| Publisher Information: | MIT Press, 2025. |
| Publication Year: | 2025 |
| Subject Terms: | 0502 economics and business, 05 social sciences, 8. Economic growth, 1. No poverty |
| Description: | Export activity shapes workers’ experience-wage profiles. Using employer-employee and customs data for Brazilian manufacturing, we document that workers’ experience-wage profiles are steeper at exporters than at non-exporters and, among exporters, steeper at exporters shipping to high-income destinations. We develop and quantify a model featuring worker-firm wage bargaining, export-market entry by multi-worker firms, and human capital accumulation by workers to interpret the data. Human capital growth can explain one-half of the differences in wage profiles between exporters and non-exporters. We show that increased human capital per worker can account for one-half of the overall gains in real income from trade openness. |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| ISSN: | 1530-9142 0034-6535 |
| DOI: | 10.1162/rest_a_01346 |
| Accession Number: | edsair.doi...........147cb2f26e67a904203ab5c2dec7dd77 |
| Database: | OpenAIRE |
| ISSN: | 15309142 00346535 |
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| DOI: | 10.1162/rest_a_01346 |