The contribution of trade to wage inequality
Subtitle: the role of skill, gender, and nationality
By: Michael W. Klein, Christoph Moser, Dieter M. Urban
Contributors: Moser, Christoph; Urban, Dieter M.; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 15985; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 15985.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
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Description: "International trade has been cited as a source of widening wage inequality in industrial nations.  Consistent with this claim, we find a significant export wage premium for high-skilled workers in German manufacturing and an export wage discount for lower skilled workers, using matched employer-employee data.  Estimates suggest that the export wage premium to high-skilled workers represents up to one third of their overall skill premium.  But, while an increase in exports increases wage inequality along the dimension of skill, it diminishes the wage inequality associated with both gender and nationality.  In this way, trade contributes to narrowing wage gaps and mitigating wage inequality in German manufacturing"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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