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El Departamento de Economía de la Universidad de Chile tiene el agrado de invitar a usted a un nuevo Seminario Académico:

Título: “Skilled labor productivity and the destination of exports”.

Autores: Irene Brambilla (Universidad Nacional de la Plata)

Presentador: Irene Brambilla

Abstract:

This paper studies a systematic link between the choice of export destinations and technology differences across firms. Our premise is that firms differ in the relative the efficiency with which they can utilize skilled labor. In a context in which quality provision is skill-intensive and consumers in high income countries are more willing to pay for quality, exporting firms that are more efficient in the use of skilled labor export relatively more to high income destinations.

The contribution of the paper is twofold. First, we propose a new estimation method of production functions that allows for heterogeneity in labor coefficients across firms. The identification strategy is based on an extension of the structural control variable approach (Olley and Pakes (1996); Levinsohn and Petrin (2003)) to multi-dimensional heterogeneous parameters. Second, we provide an empirical measure of capability of quality production and show that it is a determinant of the choice of exports, export destinations, and quality using firm-level data from Chile.

El  Seminario  se realizará el miércoles 25 de noviembre de 13:00 a 14:00 hrs, en  la Sala P-307 Tercer Piso del edificio Placa de la Facultad de Economía y Negocios de la Universidad de Chile, ubicada en Diagonal Paraguay 257.

Esperando contar con su asistencia, 

Saludos