Trade Policy and Wage Inequality: A Structural Analysis with Occupational and Sectoral Mobility
Trade Policy and Wage Inequality: A Structural Analysis with Occupational and Sectoral Mobility
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贸易政策和工资不平等：职业和部门流动性的结构分析
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10.1596/1813-9450-6194
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2012
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J. McLaren
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作者：
Erhan Artuç;J. McLaren
一些作者认为，在确定国际贸易对工人是有利还是有害方面，工人的就业职业至少与工人的就业行业同样重要。本文通过一个动态的、结构性的工人调整计量经济模型，研究了职业流动性对贸易冲击对工资不平等的影响。模型中的每个工人都可以转换行业或职业，或者两者兼而有之，在理性预期优化的环境中支付随时间变化的成本。作者发现，转换行业和职业的成本都很高，而且幅度相似，但在模拟中，他们发现，在决定工人是否受到贸易冲击的伤害方面，工人的就业行业比工人的职业或技能等级重要得多。
A number of authors have argued that a worker's occupation of employment is at least as important as the worker's industry of employment in determining whether the worker will be hurt or helped by international trade. This paper investigates the role of occupational mobility on the effects of trade shocks on wage inequality in a dynamic, structural econometric model of worker adjustment. Each worker in the model can switch either industry, occupation, or both, paying a time-varying cost to do so in a rational-expectations optimizing environment. The authors find that the costs of switching industry and occupation are both high, and of similar magnitude, but in simulations they find that a worker's industry of employment is much more important than either the worker's occupation or skill class in determining whether he or she is harmed by a trade shock.