18 results with keyword: 'firm heterogeneity trade and wage inequality'
In particular, we find that when the productivity distribution of firms in the skill intensive sector dominates that in the labor intensive sector, and the skill intensive sector
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Given that there has been about a 27 percent increase in the wage gap between skilled and unskilled labor, 21 these further imply that the trade between US and OECD countries
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technology, trade costs (fixed and variable) and worker heterogeneity based on skill.. Section-II explains the closed-economy dynamics of firm heterogeneity on
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The framework developed will now be used to conduct experiments that will help deter- mine whether increases in the average rate of skill depreciation following job losses can help
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Since more productive firms will not increase their total demand for labor if an opportunity to access informal labor market presents itself, political authorities in a
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While a marginal reduction in trade costs raises wage inequality unambiguously in our model, Egger and Kreickemeier (2012) find that trade liberalization raises wage inequality when
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We argue that firms which operate both in the formal and informal sectors do very little to increase employment when faced with the opportunity of hiring workers in the informal
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Consequently, wage inequality within workers employed by exporters is constant, inequality when all firms export is the same as in autarky and there is an inverted U-shaped
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Trade and Wage Inequality in Developing Countries: South-South Trade Matters.
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However, an empirical study revealed that global trade can only directly explain around 15 percent of the increase in wage inequality in Germany.. Primarily, the
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However, an empirical study revealed that global trade can only directly explain around 15 percent of the increase in wage inequality in Germany.. Primarily, the
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Turning to the technology regressions, the sector bias of TFP growth mandated a significant rise in inequality during the 1960s, a further insignificant rise during the 1970s, and
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We argue that firms which operate both in the formal and informal sectors do very little to increase TOTAL employment when faced with the opportunity of hiring
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The number of tasks that can be performed within a …rm depends on the average level of ability. of workers within
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Keywords: Globalization: openness to trade: openness to capital, foreign direct investment; offshoring; service trade; occupational wage; wage gap; wage inequality; developed
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We develop a dynamic general equilibrium trade model with comparative advantage, heterogeneous firms, heterogeneous workers and endogenous firm entry to study wage inequality
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