Available online 8 October 2011 We empirically examine the impact of trade on labor demand elasticities using Korean firmlevel data. In our analysis, in addition to looking at the impact of liberalizing import restrictions, we take into account the fact that greater trade integration also leads to better and greater export possibilities. While we find that Korea's own tariffs do not have any st...

Gender Gaps across Countries and Skills: Supply, Demand and the Industry Structure The gender wage gap varies widely across countries and across skill groups within countries. Interestingly, there is a positive cross-country correlation between the unskilled-to-skilled gender wage gap and the corresponding gap in hours worked. Based on a canonical supply and demand framework, this positive corr...

This paper proposes a new determinant of labor share changes. Using micro-data on the universe French manufacturing exporters over 1995–2007, I show that measure export demand growth exogenous to firm-level outcomes drives down through two effects. First, foreign shocks allow low-labor share, highly internationalized “superstar” grow disproportionately more. Second, decreases and this effect is...

We develop a dynamic equilibrium model of labor demand with adverse selection. Firms learn the quality of newly hired workers after a period of employment. Adverse selection makes it costly to hire new workers and to release productive workers. As a result, firms hoard labor and under-react to labor demand shocks. The adverse selection problem also creates a market for temporary workers. In equ...

Several empirical minimum wage studies have recently been published that simulate employment effects of a federal minimum wage in Germany. We disentangle various factors that explain the variation in previous simulation results. Based on data from the German SocioEconomic Panel and the newly available ‘Verdienststrukturerhebung 2006’ we conduct robustness analyses that systematically test the r...