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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Dear All,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>we are happy to announce the following Research Seminar in Economics to take place on Tuesday, November 13th at 18:00 - 19:30 in room E03, ground floor, Mohlstraße 36.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Presenter: Hartmut Egger<b> </b>– University of Bayreuth<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US>Title: " The Impact of Trade on the Organization of Labor within Firms" <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US>(joint work with Michael Koch)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Abstract:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US>This paper analyzes how globalization affects matching efficiency in the labor market. While<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US>previous studies have focused on the mismatch between heterogeneous workers and firms within<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US>an industry, we look inside these firms and investigate how trade alters the matching of worker-specific<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US>abilities and task-specific requirements. The outcome of this matching depends on how<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US>firms organize the internal labor market and this in turn is an endogenous decision. In our<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US>model only the most productive firms start exporting in the open economy, and these firms find<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US>it attractive to increase the investment into the internal allocation process, thereby improving<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US>the matching outcome. Things are different for non-exporters, whose market share shrinks in the<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US>open economy, lowering these firms’ incentive to invest into firm-internal labor allocation process.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US>As a result, trade not only increases matching efficiency and thus the average productivity<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US>of workers due to adjustments in the firm-internal organization of labor, but also raises the<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US>dispersion of labor productivity between heterogeneous producers. Changes in the firm-internal<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US>organization of labor also point to a so far unexplored channel through which gains from trade<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>can materialize.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Prof. Dr. Johannes Pfeifer<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TTdcr10'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:DE'>--<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:DE'>Johannes Pfeifer<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:DE'>Department of Economics<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:DE'>University of Tuebingen<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:DE'>Mohlstrasse 36<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:DE'>72074 Tuebingen<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:DE'>Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:DE'>Phone: +49 7071 29</span><span style='mso-fareast-language:DE'>74137<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>