The elusive explanation for the declining labor share

GM Grossman, E Oberfield - Annual Review of Economics, 2022 - annualreviews.org
A vast literature seeks to measure and explain the apparent decline in the labor share in
national income that has occurred in recent times in the United States and elsewhere. The …

Exports and productivity: A survey of the evidence from firm‐level data

J Wagner - World economy, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
While the role of exports in promoting growth in general, and productivity in particular, has
been investigated empirically using aggregate data for countries and industries for a long …

Export versus FDI with heterogeneous firms

E Helpman, MJ Melitz, SR Yeaple - American economic review, 2004 - pubs.aeaweb.org
Multinational sales have grown at high rates over the last two decades, outpacing the
remarkable expansion of trade in manufactures. Consequently, the trade literature has …

Trade liberalization, exports, and technology upgrading: Evidence on the impact of MERCOSUR on Argentinian firms

P Bustos - American economic review, 2011 - aeaweb.org
This paper studies the impact of a regional free trade agreement, MERCOSUR, on
technology upgrading by Argentinean firms. To guide empirical work, I introduce technology …

Robots and firms

M Koch, I Manuylov, M Smolka - The Economic Journal, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We study the microeconomic implications of robot adoption using a rich panel data set of
Spanish manufacturing firms over a 27-year period (1990–2016). We provide causal …

Trade induced technical change? The impact of Chinese imports on innovation, IT and productivity

N Bloom, M Draca, J Van Reenen - The review of economic …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We examine the impact of Chinese import competition on broad measures of technical
change—patenting, IT, and TFP—using new panel data across twelve European countries …

Trade, quality upgrading, and wage inequality in the Mexican manufacturing sector

EA Verhoogen - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2008 - academic.oup.com
This paper proposes a new mechanism linking trade and wage inequality in develo**
countries—the quality-upgrading mechanism—and investigates its empirical implications in …

Multiproduct firms and trade liberalization

AB Bernard, SJ Redding… - The Quarterly journal of …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
This article develops a general equilibrium model of multiple-product, multiple-destination
firms, which allows for heterogeneity in ability across firms and in product attributes within …

Inequality and unemployment in a global economy

E Helpman, O Itskhoki, S Redding - Econometrica, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
This paper develops a new framework for examining the determinants of wage distributions
that emphasizes within‐industry reallocation, labor market frictions, and differences in …

Comparative advantage and heterogeneous firms

AB Bernard, SJ Redding… - The Review of Economic …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
This paper examines how country, industry, and firm characteristics interact in general
equilibrium to determine nations' responses to trade liberalization. When firms possess …