Vertical Specialization and Wage Inequality

An Elementary Theory of Global Supply Chains

Pattern of vertical specialization. Labor endowment growth: Increase in labor endowment Lc0. Proposition ... Labor-endowment growth in c0 decreases inequality ...

Lecture 3 - Trade and Macroeconomics - CREI

▻ inverse measure of vertical specialization in the world production ... North-South wage gap: w w. = p p. = L. L. 1 κ κ. 1α offshoring (" κ) reduces the North ...

Why does trade liberalisation raise wage inequality worldwide?

Wage inequality between skilled and unskilled workers has increased in recent years, particularly in countries that opened their markets to ...

International Trade and Income Inequality in Japan - RIETI

They pointed out that the between-group wage inequality was declining during their sample period if the group was defined by education, ...

INEQUALITY IN A RAPIDLY CHANGING WORLD - the United Nations

Note: The vertical axis displays the growth rate of the fractile ... Unions and income inequality: a heterogenous panel co-integration and causality.

What's behind increasing wage inequality? Explaining the Italian ...

The observed downgrading wage and occupational structure seems to be in line with the ideas of low-added value specialization and lower ...

Workplace Heterogeneity and the Rise of West German Wage ...

Although most studies focus on the causes of rising wage inequality between workers with different skills, economists have long recognized that employer ...

Global Wage Report 2018/19 – What lies behind gender pay gaps

All estimates are based on drawing the wage structure using the transformation of hourly wages into natural logarithms. The broken vertical lines in the ...

CESifo Working Paper no. 3402 - CiteSeerX

Our analytical results on the pattern of vertical specialization and the inequality between nations do not depend on this simplification. But it ...

Economic Brief Trade, Specialization, Property Rights and Wealth ...

What accounts for economic disparities across countries? One leading theory is that the economies of low-income countries are less e ective at allocating ...

Inside the white box: Unpacking the determinants of quality and ...

Inside the white box: Unpacking the determinants of quality and vertical specialization ... Verhoogen, Trade, quality upgrading and wage inequality in the Mexican ...

Does vertical specialization increase productivity? - tralac

Manufacturing industries: Vertical specialization and labor productivity, 1995- ... “Globalization, Outsourcing, and Wage Inequality.” American Economic Review 86 ...

Wage Inequality and the Spatial Expansion of Firms

Real income increases the most for households that reside in locations with ex-ante specialization in hosting headquarters, and partic-. 4. Page ...

Elementary Theory of Directed Technical Change and Wage Inequality

The analysis of relative wages is indispensable when the goal is to study implications of endogenous technical change for wage inequality. The ...

Trade and Wages, Reconsidered - CORE

Vertical Specialization and Wage Inequality. The broad picture, then, is that the apparent sophistication of imports from developing countries is in large ...

Department of Economics University of Memphis Memphis, TN ...

Does Aid for Trade promote vertical specialization? ... Offshoring and wage inequality, voxeu.org, 20 December 2015 ... Economics, Atlantic Economic Journal, China ...

[PDF] The Nature and Growth of Vertical Specialization in World Trade

Widening gaps between the wages of rich ... wage international competition and wage performance in the Developed Countries in the 1980s.

Income distribution and vertical comparative advantage - UCLouvain

Therefore, our measure of income and income inequality goes beyond wage and wage inequality. ... could apply to vertical specialization ...

An Elementary Theory of Global Supply Chains - CESifo

Our analytical results on the pattern of vertical specialization and the inequality between nations do not depend on this simplification. But it ...

Vertical Specialization Across The World: A Relative Measure

Feenstra, R. C. and Hanson, G. H. (1996), 'Globalization, outsourcing, and wage in- equality', American Economic Review 86(2), 240–45.