Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/110169 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 8894
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We estimate the impact of international trade on wages using data for French manufacturing firms. We instrument firm-level trade flows with firm-specific instrumental variables based on world demand and supply shocks. Both export and offshoring shocks have a positive effect on wages. Exports increase wages for all occupational categories while offshoring has heterogeneous effects. The impact of trade on wages varies across bargaining regimes. In firms with collective bargaining, the elasticity of wages with respect to exports and offshoring is higher than in firms with no collective bargaining. Wage gains associated with collective bargaining are similar across worker categories. Keywords: exports, offshoring, firm-level wages, collective bargaining.
Subjects: 
exports
offshoring
firm-level wages
collective bargaining
JEL: 
F16
J51
E24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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