| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w17604
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 17604
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| Skill Biased Heterogeneous Firms, Trade Liberalization, and the Skill Premium |
| James Harrigan; Ariell Reshef
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| 发表日期 | 2011-11-17
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| 出版年 | 2011
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | We propose a theory that rising globalization and rising wage inequality are related because trade liberalization raises the demand facing highly competitive skill-intensive firms. In our model, only the lowest-cost firms participate in the global economy exactly along the lines of Melitz (2003). In addition to differing in their productivity, firms differ in their skill intensity. We model skill-biased technology as a correlation between skill intensity and technological acumen, and we estimate this correlation to be large using firm-level data from Chile in 1995. A fall in trade costs leads to both greater trade volumes and an increase in the relative demand for skill, as the lowest-cost/most-skilled firms expand to serve the export market while less skill-intensive non-exporters retrench in the face of increased import competition. This mechanism works regardless of factor endowment differences, so we provide an explanation for why globalization and wage inequality move together in both skill-abundant and skill-scarce countries. In our model countries are net exporters of the services of their abundant factor, but there are no Stolper- Samuelson effects because import competition affects all domestic firms equally. |
| 主题 | International Economics
; Trade
; Labor Economics
; Labor Compensation
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w17604
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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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/575279
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James Harrigan,Ariell Reshef. Skill Biased Heterogeneous Firms, Trade Liberalization, and the Skill Premium. 2011.
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