Does exporting improve matching? Evidence from French employer-employee data

Bombardini, Matilde; Orefice, Gianluca; Tito, Maria D.

doi:10.1016/j.jinteco.2018.11.001

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“…In the same vein, Davidson et al (2014) shows that export-oriented sectors display a higher correlation between rm and worker types. Using French rm level data, Bombardini et al (2019) show that the workforce composition of exporting rms has lower dispersion of worker types than domestic rms; this supports the idea that exporters have higher incentive to screen for high quality workers. Dauth et al (2018) nd that high local density encourages stronger PAM.…”

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confidence: 53%

“…In this section we provide several types of robustness checks, adding control variables, changing some features of the data, and modifying the selection of workers in the sample. Previous papers have identied a positive impact of international competitionmeasured as export intensityon the correlation of worker-rm matching at the industry and rm level (see Davidson et al 2012;Davidson et al 2014;Bombardini et al 2019). To check whether openness to trade, potentially correlated with openness to immigrants at the district level, is a spurious cause for the positive relation found in our analysis, we perform robustness checks including the export intensity of the district (the log of total district exports) as a further control in equation ( 13).…”

Section: Robustness Checksmentioning

confidence: 99%

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In labor markets characterised by large dispersion of workers' productivity and worker-firm complementarity, high quality firms have strong incentives to screen for the quality of workers. This implies positive assortative matching and an increase in the average productivity.Immigration, by increasing the variance of workers abilities, may drive stronger PAM between firms and workers.Using French matched employer-employee (DADS) data over the period 1995-2005 we document that positive supply-driven changes of immigrant workers in a district increased the strength of positive assortative Matching and the average productivity of the district.One percentage point increase in the supply-driven share of immigrants in the district implies an increase in the share of positive assortative matches (net of mismatch) by 3.3 percentage points. This corresponds to a 30% reduction in the PAM gap between a district belonging to the 25 th percentile of the PAM intensity distribution and the Parisian labor market.

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“…By and large, this evidence is in line with the other findings, and points to a further important effect of new imported inputs in terms of im-proved allocative efficiency. Our findings are also complementary to recent results by Bombardini et al (2015), who find a positive effect of exporting on worker-firm matching in France.…”

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New Imported Inputs, Wages and Worker Mobility

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We provide a comprehensive assessment of the effects of new imported inputs on wage dynamics, on the skill-composition of the labor force, on worker mobility, and on the efficiency of matching between firms and workers. We employ matched employeremployee data for Italy, over 1995-2007. We complement these data with information on the arrival of new imported inputs at the industry level. We find new imported inputs to have a positive effect on average wage growth at the firm level. This effect is driven by two factors: (1) an increase in the white-collar/bluecollar ratio; and (2) an increase in the average wage growth of blue-collar workers, while the wage growth of white collars is not significantly affected. The individual-level analysis reveals that the increase in the average wage of blue collars is driven by the displacement of the lowest paid workers, while continuously employed individuals are not affected. We estimate the unobserved skills of workers following Abowd et al. (1999). We find evidence that new imported inputs lead to a positive selection of higher-skilled workers, and to an improvement in positive assortative matching between firms and workers.

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“…sectors, we use an instrumental variable (IV) approach. In a similar spirit to Hummels et al (2014) and Bombardini et al (2018), we construct an instrument that combines changes in the world export supply of foreign countries with pre-existing differences in the geographical composition of UK imports across industries. This IV strategy is meant to isolate the variation in UK imports due to changes in supply conditions in foreign countries.…”

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Globalization and mental distress

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We study the effects of import competition on workers' mental distress, using unique longitudinal data on mental health for British residents, coupled with measures of import competition in more than 100 industries over 1995-2007. We find that import competition has a large negative impact on individual mental health. Compared to a worker employed in the industry at the 25th percentile of the import competition distribution, a worker employed in the industry at the 75th percentile would need a yearly monetary compensation of £270 to make up for her greater utility loss. We find import competition to have larger effects on the right tail of the mental distress distribution, thereby increasing inequality in mental health not only across but also within industries. We show that this is consistent with import competition disproportionately hitting specific groups of workers in an industry, such as the youngest or those with a large family, a poor financial condition, a short job tenure, a temporary contract, and a bluecollar or tradable job. Using information on family ties, we find that import competition has negative spillovers to other family members. In particular, women's mental distress increases as a consequence of the import competition faced by their partners. Moreover, paternal import competition leads to reduced investment in child rearing and worsened children's self-esteem and life satisfaction. Finally, we provide evidence that import competition is likely to work through a complex set of channels. These include observable labor market outcomes such as higher likelihood of job displacement and lower wage growth, but also reduced job satisfaction and gloomier expectations about the future.

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Does exporting improve matching? Evidence from French employer-employee data

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