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Exports and Job Training
Author(s) -
Bastos Paulo,
Silva Joana,
Proença Rafael
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
review of international economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.513
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1467-9396
pISSN - 0965-7576
DOI - 10.1111/roie.12236
Subject(s) - workforce , training (meteorology) , business , labour economics , exchange rate , variation (astronomy) , economics , finance , economic growth , physics , meteorology , astrophysics
Abstract This paper examines whether export participation matters for job training, drawing on longitudinal worker–firm data for Brazilian manufacturing linked with detailed records on training activity from the main provider. Using industry‐specific exchange‐rate movements to generate exogenous variation in export status at the firm level, we find that export participation tends to increase the share of workers who receive technical upgrading. We also provide evidence that technical upgrading has positive returns to trainees within exporting firms. These results support the hypothesis that exporting requires skill upgrading, and suggest that this is partially achieved by training firms’ existing workforce.