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Explaining Intra- and Intersectoral Wage Differentials in Simple General Equilibrium Trade Models

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dc.creator Spatz, Julius
dc.date 2001
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T06:56:31Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T06:56:31Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/17727
dc.identifier ppn:329438638
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/17727
dc.description The labour markets in the developed countries have experienced two fundamental changes in recent years. Firstly, high-skilled workers have gained at the expense of low-skilled workers, which manifests itself in a rising skill premium and/or a rising disparity in the unemployment rates of these two skill groups. Secondly, sectors with low wage levels have expanded while sectors with high wage levels have contracted. By presenting two insider-outsider general equilibrium models, which analyse the impact of trade on both dimensions of income distribution, this paper seeks to contribute to the ongoing debate on whether the progressing globalisation of the world economy is to blame for these two trends. From this analysis, two important results emerge. Firstly, the distributional effects of trade are highly sensitive to even minor changes to the assumption of the 2 x 2 trade model. This suggests that due attention should be paid to the choice of the structural model. Secondly, there might be a bias inherent to the ?mandated-wage approach" that makes most empirical studies fail to find a strong influence of trade on the skill premium.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) Kiel
dc.relation Kieler Arbeitspapiere 1042
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject J31
dc.subject F11
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject trade
dc.subject income distribution
dc.subject real rigidities
dc.subject insider-outsider model
dc.subject Faktorproportionentheorem
dc.subject Allgemeines Gleichgewicht
dc.subject Faktorpreisausgleich
dc.subject Insider-Outsider-Modell
dc.subject Sektorale Lohnstruktur
dc.subject Lohnrigidität
dc.subject Globalisierung
dc.subject Einkommensverteilung
dc.subject Theorie
dc.title Explaining Intra- and Intersectoral Wage Differentials in Simple General Equilibrium Trade Models
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


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