The effects of trade openness on regional inequality in Mexico
The effects of trade openness on regional inequality in Mexico
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DOI：
10.1007/s00168-006-0099-x
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发表时间：
2007-06
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
M. Rivas
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作者：
M. Rivas
本文试图通过探讨贸易开放对地区不平等的影响的具体机制，来阐明贸易开放对地区不平等的影响。它是通过检验假设，内生增长理论的基础上，一个地区的能力，以捕捉贸易开放的好处取决于关键的区域特征，其关键的禀赋，因此，在何种程度上贸易将减少区域不平等在一个给定的国家是介导的地理分布的禀赋。我在墨西哥测试的假设，从1940年到现在运行的原始次国家数据集的统计分析。结果表明，开放贸易对教育水平较低的地区更有利，从而趋于减少区域不平等。然而，开放贸易也使收入和基础设施水平较高的区域受益更多，从而往往加剧区域不平等。后一种效应大于前一种效应，因此贸易开放的总体效应是增加地区不平等。
This paper attempts to shed light on the debate about the effect of trade openness on regional inequality, by exploring the specific mechanisms through which this relationship might operate. It does so by testing the hypothesis, based on endogenous growth theory, that a region’s ability to capture the benefits of trade openness depends on key regional characteristics—its critical endowments—and therefore the degree to which trade will reduce regional inequality in a given country is mediated by the geographic distribution of its endowments. I test the hypothesis in Mexico, using statistical analysis of an original sub-national dataset that runs from 1940 to the present. The results indicate that opening up to trade benefits more those regions with lower levels of education, thereby tending to reduce regional inequality. However, opening up to trade also benefits more those regions with higher levels of income and infrastructure, thereby tending to increase regional inequality. This latter effect is greater than the former, so that the overall effect of trade openness is to increase regional inequality.