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Dan Liu, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics: international trade,firm training and wage inequality

2013-04-29
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Abstract: Training has been widely documented as an important way to increase labor productivity in the labor economic literature. This paper incorporates firm-specific training into a recent framework of search model developed by Helpman, Itskhoki and Redding (2010). It finds that more productive firms invest more on training, and pay higher wages to keep these well-trained workers. More productive firms invest relatively more on training skilled workers, and pay them relatively higher wages. Exporting increases training, wage and within-firm wage gap. Empirical evidence is also provided based on a firm-worker matched data set for Canada.