Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/86663 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. 09-020/1
Publisher: 
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Abstract: 
This paper presents a trade model with capital and labor as factors of production. The main contribution of this paper is that it considers a new type of firm heterogeneity, which is empirically relevant: firms in this paper differ with respect to their factor shares in production. Therefore, this paper addresses the following four empirical facts on globalization, firms’ factor shares and factor prices: (i) firms within narrowly defined industries exhibit a large degree of heterogeneity in factor shares in production; (ii) exporters are, on average, more capital intensive than non—exporters; (iii) globalization decreases labor’s share in national income; (iv) the larger the share of exporters in the industry, the larger the increase in the industry’s wages due to globalization.
Subjects: 
two—factor trade model
firm heterogeneity in factor shares
JEL: 
F12
L11
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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