Exports and Job Training

• Tác giả: Paulo Bastos
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 010.7 Bibliography
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, Washington, DC, 2016
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 305171
• Chủ đề: 1. EMPLOYMENT; 2. JOBS; 3. PRODUCT MARKET COMPETITION; 4. SKILLS; 5. TRAINING FIRMS

Tóm tắt

This paper examines whether export participation matters for job training. The paper draws on longitudinal worker-firm data for Brazilian manufacturing, linked with detailed records on training activity from the main provider. The analysis uses industry-specific exchange rate movements to generate exogenous variation in export status at the firm-level. The findings indicate that export participation tends to increase the share of workers who receive technical upgrading. The results also reveal that technical upgrading has positive returns to trainees within exporting firms. These findings support the hypothesis that exporting requires skill upgrading, and suggest that this is partially achieved by training firms' existing workforce.