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Schooling Supply and the Structure of Production: Evidence from US States 1950-1990
Ciccone, Antonio; Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
We find that over the period 1950-1990, US states absorbed increases in the supply of schooling due to tighter compulsory schooling and child labor laws mostly through within-industry increases in the schooling intensity of production. Shifts in the industry composition towards more...
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US Trade and Wages: The Misleading Implications of Conventional Trade Theory
Edwards, Lawrence; Lawrence, Robert Zachary - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
Conventional trade theory, which combines the Heckscher-Ohlin theory and the Stolper-Samuelson theorem, implies that … expanded trade between developed and developing countries will increase wage inequality in the developed countries. This theory … conventional theory to the assumption of incomplete specialization and find evidence that is not consistent with it. Since 1987 …
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Goods Trade, Factor Mobility and Welfare
Redding, Stephen James - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
We develop a quantitative spatial model that incorporates a rich geography of trade and imperfect labor mobility between locations. We provide general results for the existence, uniqueness and comparative statics of the equilibrium. We show how the model can be used to undertake counterfactuals...
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Trade-in-goods and trade-in-tasks: An Integrating Framework
Baldwin, Richard; robert-nicoud, frédéric - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
Our paper integrates results from trade-in-task theory into mainstream trade theory by developing trade …
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Heterogeneous Workers and International Trade
Grossman, Gene - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
In this paper, I survey the recent theoretical literature that incorporates heterogeneous labor into models of international trade. The models with heterogeneous labor have been used to study how talent dispersion can be a source of comparative advantage, how the opening of trade affects the...
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Offshoring: General Equilibrium Effects on Wages, Production and Trade
Baldwin, Richard; robert-nicoud, frédéric - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
A simple model of offshoring, which depicts offshoring as 'shadow migration,' permits straightforward derivation of necessary and sufficient conditions for the effects on wages, prices, production and trade. We show that offshoring requires modification of the four classic international trade...
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A Note on the Empirical Implementation of the Lens Condition
Robertson, Raymond; Schott, Peter K.; Bernard, Andrew B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
Deardorff [Journal of International Economics 36 (1994) 167-175] offers an intuitively appealing test for factor price equality (FPE). He demonstrates that FPE is impossible if the set (i.e., lens) of points defined by regional factor abundance vectors does not lie within the set of points...
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Trading Tasks: A Simple Theory of Offshoring
Grossman, Gene; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
For centuries, most international trade involved an exchange of complete goods. But, with recent improvements in transportation and communications technology, it increasingly entails different countries adding value to global supply chains, or what might be called "trade in tasks." We propose a...
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Sorting It Out: International Trade and Protection With Heterogeneous Workers
Trefler, Daniel; Ohnsorge, Franziska - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004
The two models of international trade with developed factor markets -- Heckscher-Ohlin and Specific Factors -- both suffer significant defects. For example, their predictions about the patterns of domestic production and international trade are for the most part either indeterminate or uselessly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037681
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One Ring to Rule Them All? Globalization of Knowledge and Knowledge Creation
Freeman, Richard B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper directs attention at the globalization of knowledge and knowledge creation as the fundamental global driver of economic outcomes in today's information economy. It documents the globalization of knowledge and spread of scientific research from advanced to developing countries and...
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