Sorting It Out: International Trade with Heterogeneous Workers
Sorting It Out: International Trade with Heterogeneous Workers
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整理一下：与异质工人的国际贸易
DOI：
10.1086/523657
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发表时间：
2007
影响因子：
8.2
通讯作者：
Daniel Trefler
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文献类型：
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作者：
F. Ohnsorge;Daniel Trefler
每个工人都能为工作场所带来一系列技能，例如定量和沟通技能。由于雇主必须把这一捆绑作为一揽子交易，他们选择的工人只有正确的技能组合。我们表明，国际上工人技能分布的差异-例如，日本的大量工人与数量和团队合作技能的适度组合-对国际贸易，产业结构和国内收入分配有重要影响。形式上，我们对二维工人异质性进行建模，并表明技能分布的二阶矩是关键的，就像罗伊模型一样。
Each worker brings a bundle of skills to the workplace, for example, quantitative and communication skills. Since employers must take this bundle as a package deal, they choose workers with just the right mix of skills. We show that international differences in the distribution of worker skill bundles—for example, Japan’s abundance of workers with a modest mix of both quantitative and teamwork skills—have important implications for international trade, industrial structure, and domestic income distribution. Formally, we model two‐dimensional worker heterogeneity and show that the second moments of the distribution of skills are critical, as in the Roy model.