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contributions to these relative wage movements of international trade and technical change. We first measure trade as changes in … 1980s. We also find that although increased trade pressure has raised technical change, its effect on wage inequality was …
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We develop a model where trade liberalization leads to skill-biased technological change, which in turn raises the … trade, technology and relative returns to skilled and unskilled labour. Moreover, we show that as market integration … continues and trade costs fall below a certain threshold, the relative return to skilled labour may fall. …
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We review the literature on the links between technology and international trade. The older literature assumed … exogenous technologies and focused on their effects on the structure of foreign trade and on welfare. Recently much of the … effort has been on explaining technological change. As a result, we also describe the effects of foreign trade on …
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During the last two decades new research has greatly advanced our understanding of the structure of world trade. This … foreign trade the discussion is in two parts. One part examines the links between factor endowments and trade flows. New … across countries. A second part examines determinants of the volume of trade, the share of intra-industry trade and evidence …
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