全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): DP4296 The Cross-Sectional Implications of Rising Wage Inequality in the United States

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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP4296
	DP4296 The Cross-Sectional Implications of Rising Wage Inequality in the United States
	Kjetil Storesletten; Giovanni L. Violante; Jonathan Heathcote
发表日期	2004-03-23
出版年	2004
语种	英语
摘要	We explore the relationship between greater exposure to trade (as measured by openness) and child labour in a cross-country setting. Our methodology accounts for the fact that trade flows are endogenous to child labour (and labour standards more generally) by examining the relationship between child labour and variation in trade based on geography. We find that countries that trade more have less child labour. At the cross-country means, the data suggest an openness elasticity of child labour of -0.7. For low-income countries, the elasticity of child labour with respect to trade with high-income countries is -0.9. These relationships appear to be largely attributable to the positive association between trade and income. When we control for the endogeneity of trade and for cross-country income differences, the openness elasticity of child labour at cross-country means is much smaller (-0.1) and statistically insignificant. We consistently find a negative but statistically insignificant association between openness and child labour conditional on cross-country income differences when we split the sample into different country groups, consider only trade between high and low income countries, or focus on exports of unskilled-labour intensive products from low income countries. Thus, the cross-country data do not substantiate assertions that trade per se plays a significant role in perpetuating the high levels of child labour that pervade low-income countries.
主题	International Trade and Regional Economics
关键词	International trade Child labour Cross-country study Endogeneity
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp4296
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/533257
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Kjetil Storesletten,Giovanni L. Violante,Jonathan Heathcote. DP4296 The Cross-Sectional Implications of Rising Wage Inequality in the United States. 2004.