全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): DP2008 Changes in the Relative Structure of Wages and Employment: A Comparison of Canada, France and the United States

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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP2008
	DP2008 Changes in the Relative Structure of Wages and Employment: A Comparison of Canada, France and the United States
	David Card; Thomas Lemieux; francis kramarz
发表日期	1998-10-31
出版年	1998
语种	英语
摘要	This paper examines the linkage between trade and the dismal state of labour markets in Europe. On the face of superficial evidence, the nexus is weak and is overshadowed by more compelling evidence of skill-biased technical change. Yet a complete dismissal of globalization is inconsistent with current opinions of businessmen, policy-makers and workers in globalized industries. We propose an alternative model in which globalization - defined as the increase in world trade relative to other indicators of real economic activity - occurs along with deterioration of labour market prospects, especially for the less-skilled. As an alternative or complement to conventional trade and technology explanations, we model both the fragmentation of production and resulting reallocation of economic activity across national boundaries as equilibrium responses to trading opportunities as well as the technology of production. Increasing integration is therefore linked to both trade as well as pervasive skill-biased technical change. The model's predictions are consistent with a number of outstanding empirical puzzles in the trade-wages debate and can also explain the bimodal growth in services (high and low skill) observed in all OECD countries, and especially those with deregulated labour markets.
主题	International Trade and Regional Economics ; Labour Economics
关键词	European labour markets International trade Organization of production Services Technology choice Vertical division of labour
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp2008
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/531136
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	David Card,Thomas Lemieux,francis kramarz. DP2008 Changes in the Relative Structure of Wages and Employment: A Comparison of Canada, France and the United States. 1998.