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The Long and Short (of) Quality Ladders

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KHANDELWAL, AMIT·2010·Review of Economic Studies
DOI 10.1111/j.1467-937x.2010.00602.x
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Prices are typically used as proxies for countries' export quality. I relax this strong assumption by exploiting both price and quantity information to estimate the quality of products exported to the United States. Higher quality is assigned to products with higher market shares conditional on price. The estimated qualities reveal substantial heterogeneity in product markets' scope for quality differentiation, or their “quality ladders”. I use this variation to explain the heterogeneous impact of low-wage competition on US manufacturing employment and output. Markets characterized by relatively short quality ladders are associated with larger employment and output declines resulting from low-wage competition.

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Authors
KHANDELWAL, A.
Venue
Review of Economic Studies
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Published
2010-08-13
Volume
77
Issue
4
Pages
1450-1476
ISSN
0034-6527 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1111/j.1467-937x.2010.00602.x
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94.02
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journal article
Language
en
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KHANDELWAL, A. (2010). The Long and Short (of) Quality Ladders. Review of Economic Studies. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-937x.2010.00602.x

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