The Trade and Labour Approaches to Wage Inequality

Queen Mary & Westfield College Working Paper No. 405

14 Pages Posted: 2 Nov 1999

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Jonathan Haskel

Imperial College Business School; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); IZA Institute of Labor Economics

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Date Written: July 1999

Abstract

We compare the trade and labour approaches to wage inequality. We first look at the theoretical differences, stressing the different roles ascribed to sector and factor bias, labour supply and the theory of technical change in trade models with endogenous prices. We then briefly review some of the evidence on the sector bias of prices and technology.

JEL Classification: F16, J31, O33

Suggested Citation

Haskel, Jonathan, The Trade and Labour Approaches to Wage Inequality (July 1999). Queen Mary & Westfield College Working Paper No. 405, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=185648 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.185648

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