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decompose wages into firm and worker components. We find that the rise of market access and competitiveness of the East has a … explain changes in the firm wage premium. The rising dispersion in worker-specific wages can be attributed to increasing skill …-specific wages. Overall, trade explains up to 19% of the recent increase in wage inequality and slightly exceeds the technology …
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In the last quarter century, wage inequality has increased dramatically in the United States. At the same time, the US has become more integrated into the world economy prices of final goods have changed, the capital stock has more than doubled has become steadily more educated. This paper...
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We develop an empirical framework to assess the importance of trade and technical change on the wages of production and … outsourcing and expenditures on high-technology equipment can explain a substantial amount of the increase in the wages of …
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trade on U.S. wages. The standard model of general equilibrium presented shows that each effect tends to be opposite in sign … same, not oppo- site effect on wages at both skill levels; a rise in the foreign share in world innovation or US patents … decreases US wages; an increase in the US share in world innovation or US patents raises US wages, especially for the less …
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Using firm-level data for Georgia, the paper estimates the quasi-elasticity of employment and wages with respect to the … employment levels and average wages by gender and consider whether export destination or the competiveness of economies matters … improves female employment but reduces overall average wages and female wages. Increasing exports to the European Union as well …
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emigration on the real wages and salaries of German laborers. Annual data for 49 years has been used to estimate twelve different … regressions, trying to capture the effect of these variables on the real wages and salaries in Germany while considering the … literature. The paper concludes that wages are unresponsive to the macroeconomics changes most of the time while salaries are …
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We develop an empirical framework to assess the importance of trade and technical change on the wages of production and … wages of non-production (high-skilled) relative to production (low-skilled) workers that occurred during the 1980s …
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technology, and trade on U.S. wages. A standard model of general equilibrium is presented that shows each effect tends to be … technology has the same rather than opposite effect on wages at both skill levels; (ii), a rise in the foreign share in world … innovation or U.S. patents decreases U.S. wages; (iii), an increase in the U.S. share in world innovation or U.S. patents raises …
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