| 来源类型 | Discussion paper
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| 规范类型 | 论文
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| 来源ID | DP6042
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| DP6042 Delegation and Incentives |
| Helmut Bester; Daniel Krähmer
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| 发表日期 | 2007-01-14
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| 出版年 | 2007
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Since changes in trade openness are typically confounded with other factors, it has been difficult to identify the labour market consequences of increased international trade. The advent of the United States Interstate Highway System provides a unique policy experiment, which I use to identify the effect of reducing trade barriers on the relative demand for skilled labour. The Interstate Highway System was designed to connect major metropolitan areas, to serve national defence and to connect the United States to Canada and Mexico. As a consequence - though not an objective - many rural counties were also connected to the highway system. I find that these counties experienced an increase in trade-related activities, such as trucking and retail sales, by 7-10 percentage points per capita. Most significantly, by increasing trade the highways raised the relative demand for skilled manufacturing workers in counties with a high endowment of human capital and reduced it elsewhere, consistent with the predictions of the Heckscher-Ohlin model. |
| 主题 | Development Economics
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| 关键词 | Highways
Skill premium
Trade
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| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp6042
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| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/534876
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Helmut Bester,Daniel Krähmer. DP6042 Delegation and Incentives. 2007.
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