We analyse the influence of North-South openness on technological change and on inequalities between skilled and unskilled workers in the advanced countries (the ‘North'). A North-South model of endogenous growth based on technological knowledge is constructed and simulated according to 3...

Over the last thirty years, both developed and developing countries have experienced a huge globalization of their economies, which has coincided with an increase in intra-country income inequality, both within and between skill groups. This article surveys the key mechanisms of the...

We review the 'skill-biased technological change (SBTC) versus North-South trade (NST)' debate in order to explain widening wage inequality between skilled and unskilled workers. The traditional explanations based on exogenous SBTC and on the North-South Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson approach, as...

We show that the very characteristics of educational systems generate social segmentation. A stylised educational framework is constructed in which everyone receives a compulsory basic education and can subsequently choose between direct working, vocational studies and university. There is a...

We review the skill-biased technological change (SBTC) versus NorthSouth trade (NST) debate in order to explain widening wage inequality between skilled and unskilled workers. The traditional explanations based on exogenous SBTC and on the NorthSouth Heckscher Ohlin Samuelson approach, as well...