Skill Bias, Trade, and Wage Dispersion

Skill-biased technical change and trade integration have both been indicated to be the cause of the wide increase in wage inequality in U.S. in the last 50 years. This paper shows in a simple uni�ed framework why both mechanisms can reproduce the observed pattern of wage dispersion. Intra-fi�rm rent distribution can be used to disentangle these causes.

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Year of publication:	2009-04-16
Authors:	Monte, Ferdinando
Institutions:	Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Subject:	International Trade \| Skill Biased Techical Change \| Inequality

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	MPRA Paper.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Classification:	F16 - Trade and Labor Market Interactions ; D33 - Factor Income Distribution ; O33 - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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