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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w17991 |
来源ID | Working Paper 17991 |
Trade and Inequality: From Theory to Estimation | |
Elhanan Helpman; Oleg Itskhoki; Marc-Andreas Muendler; Stephen J. Redding | |
发表日期 | 2012-04-12 |
出版年 | 2012 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | While neoclassical theory emphasizes the impact of trade on wage inequality between occupations and sectors, more recent theories of firm heterogeneity point to the impact of trade on wage dispersion within occupations and sectors. Using linked employer-employee data for Brazil, we show that much of overall wage inequality arises within sector-occupations and for workers with similar observable characteristics; this within component is driven by wage dispersion between firms; and wage dispersion between firms is related to firm employment size and trade participation. We then extend the heterogenous-firm model of trade and inequality from Helpman, Itskhoki, and Redding (2010) and estimate it with Brazilian data. We show that the estimated model provides a close approximation to the observed distribution of wages and employment. We use the estimated model to undertake counterfactuals, in which we find sizable effects of trade on wage inequality. |
主题 | Macroeconomics ; Consumption and Investment ; International Economics ; Trade |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w17991 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/575667 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Elhanan Helpman,Oleg Itskhoki,Marc-Andreas Muendler,et al. Trade and Inequality: From Theory to Estimation. 2012. |
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