WORKSHOP ON TRADE AND FIRM LABOR COSTS
When: 29 June 2016, 9.20 am - 5.30 pm
Where: SciencesPo CEVIPOF, 98, rue de l'Université - Paris 75007, salle G. Lavau,
Description:
OFCE-Sciences Po is organising a one-day workshop on "Trade and Firm labor cost" the 29th June 2016 in Paris.
While the sensitivity of trade to unit labor costs is relatively well documented at the macro-level, few studies address the issue at the firm-level, discarding the heterogeneous response of trading firms. The relation between labor costs and firm competitiveness is a dual one. If a high wage bill reduces cost competitiveness, it may also signal the high qualification of the labour force. Disentangling these two aspects of labor cost is a major question of empirical identification.
At a time where governments compete with each other to raise their national competitiveness, for instance by lowering taxes on wages, new evidence are needed to guide the design of policies and make competitiveness policies well purposed.
To this end, this workshop intends to gather recent research on firm-level studies on trade and labor costs. In particular, it aims at augmenting the evidence about the relation between firms' wage payroll and trade outcomes by exploiting the information from micro-level panel data.
Local Organizer: sarah.guillou@sciencespo.fr
To attend the Workshop: Send an email to laborcosts.workshop@sciencespo.fr.
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