Vertical Specialization and Wage Inequality

Globalization, Product Differentiation and Wage Inequality

Furthermore, a new and potentially important source of gains from trade was uncov- ered: intraindustry trade specialization allows economies of scale and ...

Heterogeneous Trade Costs and Wage Inequality: A Model of Two ...

Finally, we show how asymmetric participation in the C-globalization of two southern countries generates a discontinuous pattern of specialization. The southern ...

Vertical Specialization and International Business Cycle ...

The analytical finding is that, when standard national income accounting methods are used to construct real GDP, fluctuations in measured Total Factor ...

Vertical specialization, global expansion of supply chain, and ...

We further address the effects of such a trade opening on wage inequality. Keywords: vertical specialization; trade; growth; inequality. JEL Classification: F1.

Why does international vertical specialisation affect within‐firm skill ...

We investigate its relationship with measured skill premium in manufacturing firms and find that a one percentage point decrease in international vertical ...

Robot adoption, worker-firm sorting and wage inequality

robot adoption increases wage inequality by fostering both horizontal and vertical task specialization across firms. In local economies where robot ...

tasks, automation, and the rise in us wage inequality daron acemoglu

controlling for exposure to industry labor share declines and relative specialization ... —Observed wage changes (vertical axis) versus predicted wage changes in ...

Income distribution and vertical comparative advantage Theory and ...

Income inequality increases specialization in high-quality varieties if preferences for high quality varieties are convex along income. In that ...

Identifying the policy levers generating wage suppression and wage ...

Inequalities abound in the U.S. economy, and a central driver in recent decades is the widening gap between the hourly compensation of a typical ...

vertical specialization - UN Statistics Division

income inequality, India, indirect exports, industrial cluster, industrial policy structure, industrial sector, industrial subsidies, industrial upgrading ...

Task specialization and the Native‐Foreign Wage Gap - EconStor

this vertical gap, the more important is idiosyncratic variation relative to occupational variation. Point estimates are displayed with a 95% confidence ...

Vertical Specialization, Intermediate Tariffs, and the Pattern of Trade

... wage skill gap in both locations. Krugman and Venables (1995) find that lowering transport costs can lead to a fall in wage inequality across regions. More ...

Human Capital Specialization and the College Wage Premium

Even more importantly, the analysis suggests new educational policy tools to tackle income inequality. The economic model and accompanying empirical exercises ...

Trade, foreign investment, and wage inequality in developing ...

This narrowing may eventually cause some developing countries to become developed countries [7]. The combined effect of these two forms of technical change is ...

Trade liberalization and the wage gap: the role of vertical linkages ...

This paper studies the labor market impacts of trade liberalization, and specifically tariff reductions, with a focus on the wage gap between skilled and ...

Income Distribution, Product Quality, and International Trade

International trade flows reveal systematic patterns of vertical specialization. When rich and poor countries export goods in the same product category, the ...

Average income, income inequality and export unit values ∗

Put differently, in a model where income distribution determines the vertical specialization of countries, higher income inequality.

Is Trade Liberalization an Important Cause of Increasing U.S. Wage ...

Wage or earnings inequality in turn is perhaps the central income ... income that improved specialization makes possible. But is it even possible to ...

Inequalities and the world of work - International Labour Organization

In recent years, the debate on vertical inequalities has increasingly focused on how, in many countries, the richest 1 per cent or the top 10 per cent of income.

NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE ROLE OF GLOBALIZATION ...

In Section 5, I estimate the impact of vertical specialization on employment inequality through a regression analysis. Section 6 concludes. 2. The index of ...