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...

In this paper we use micro data on both trade and production for a sample of large Chinese manufacturing firms in the footwear industry from 2002 − 2006 to estimate an empirical model of export demand, pricing, and market participation by destination market. We use the model to construct indexes of firm product quality, productivity, and export market capability. The empirical results indicate ...

Using a linked employer-employee data set of the German manufacturing sector, this paper analyses the role of exporting establishments in explaining rising wage dispersion. Over the period of analysis (1996–2007), the raw wage diff erential between exporters and domestic establishments increased substantially, which can only partly be attributed to corresponding changes in human capital endowme...

The business literature and recent descriptive evidence show that exporting firms typically require the help of foreign trade intermediaries or need to set up own foreign wholesale affiliates. In contrast, conventional trade theory models assume that producers can directly access foreign consumers. This paper introduces intermediaries in an international trade model where producers differ with ...

This paper starts out from the observation that the export shares of firms (export to sales ratio) vary greatly among firms, and tend to be systematically related to the firms' capital labour ratios. This observation cannot be explained by e.g. the standard Melitz model, since it predicts that all exporting firms have identical export shares. In our model, we relate the difference in export sha...