The Skill Bias of World Trade
The Skill Bias of World Trade
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世界贸易的技能偏见
DOI：
10.2139/ssrn.859486
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发表时间：
2002
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通讯作者：
G. Gancia
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作者：
Paolo Epifani;G. Gancia
我们认为，由于消费的替代弹性大于1，技能密集型行业的经济规模更大，世界贸易总量对工资不平等具有重要意义。这意味着，即使是在相同的国家之间，贸易一体化也可能会增加技能溢价。这一结果也可以解释经历了剧烈贸易自由化的发展中国家的技能溢价增加的原因。此外，我们认为，技能密集型商品相对价格下降的证据可以与世界贸易的快速增长相一致，资本的跨部门流动加剧了贸易对不平等的影响。我们提供了新的经验证据来支持我们的结果，并对世界贸易的技能偏差进行了量化评估。
We argue that, with an elasticity of substitution in consumption greater than one and higher scale economies in the skill-intensive sectors, the entire volume of world trade matters for wage inequality. This implies that trade integration, even among identical countries, is likely to increase the skill premium. This result can also explain the increase in skill premia in developing countries that have experienced drastic trade liberalizations. Further, we argue that evidence of a falling relative price of skill-intensive goods can be reconciled with the fast growth of world trade and that the intersectoral mobility of capital exacerbates the effect of trade on inequality. We provide new empirical evidence in support of our results and a quantitative assessment of the skill bias of world trade.
DOI：
10.2139/ssrn.3595
发表时间：
1998-03
期刊：
Macroeconomics eJournal
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作者：
R. Hall;C. I. Jones
通讯作者：
R. Hall;C. I. Jones