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Capital, heterogeneous labour, global goods markets and unemployment
Schweinberger, Albert G. - 2001
Minimum wages, global markets, unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013436092
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Trade, technology and labour markets : empirical controversies in the light of the Jones model
Pflüger, Michael - 2003
The deterioration of the income and employment position of unskilled workers in the OECD since the 1980s is a well-documented fact. The debate about the causes of this development is dominated by two competing hypotheses, "North-South Trade" ("globalisation") and technological progress. Several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011437433
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Monopolistic competition, optimum product diversity, and international trade : the role of factor endowment and factor intensities
Marjit, Sugata; Mandal, Biswajit - 2021 - This draft August, 2021
In this paper we revisit the influential theory of monopolistic competition and optimum product variety as developed by …-Stiglitz-Krugman model. Later we reflect on wage inequality and unemployment providing some interesting results. …
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Trade, Technology and Labour Markets : Empirical Controversies in the Light of the Jones Model
Pflüger, Michael - 2021
The deterioration of the income and employment position of unskilled workers in the OECD area since the 1980s is a well-documented fact. The debate about the causes of this development is dominated by two competing hypotheses, "North-South Trade" or "globalisation" and technological progress....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320900
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The employment effects of technological change : heterogenous labor, wage inequality and unemployment ; with 21 tables
Rubart, Jens - 2007
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The Employment Effects of Technological Change : Heterogenous Labor, Wage Inequality and Unemployment
Rubart, Jens (contributor) - 2007
"The labor markets of important OECD countries show a similar picture: high wages and low unemployment for skilled … workers and low wages but high unemployment for low-skilled workers. During the last 10 years this fact has been studied under …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013520753
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Minimum wage, trade and unemployment in general equilibrium
Marjit, Sugata; Ganguly, Shrimoyee; Acharyya, Rajat - 2020
The path breaking work of Card and Krueger (1993), showing higher minimum wage can increase employment turned the age-old conventional wisdom on its head. This paper demonstrates that this apparently paradoxical result is perfectly plausible in a competitive general equilibrium production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012162484
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Trade liberalization and wage inequality : new insights from a dynamic trade model with heterogeneous firms and comparative advantage
Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Mileva, Mariya - 2015
We develop a dynamic general equilibrium trade model with comparative advantage, heterogeneous firms, heterogeneous workers and endogenous firm entry to study wage inequality during the adjustment after trade liberalization. We find that trade liberalization increases wage inequality both in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011374067
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Wage inequality and skill asymmetries
Skott, Peter; Auerbach, Paul Robert - 2004
between and within skill categories, as well as an increase in unemployment, especially among low-skill workers. Movements in … productivity, unemployment and inequality may thus be linked to induced overeducation and credentialism. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011527123
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Wage divergence and unemployment : the impact of insider power and training costs
Muysken, Joan; Zwick, Thomas - 2000
The US labour market is characterized by a high skill wage mark-up and low unemployment, while the German labour market … has a low skill wage mark-up and a high, mainly unskilled unemployment rate. This paper adds an innovative labour supply … to an increased relative skill demand which is not matched by the skill supply and therefore mis-match unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444759