Impact De L’Ouverture Nord-Sud Sur Le Progrès Technique Et Les Inégalités Salariales (The Impact of North-South Trade upon Technical Change and Wage Inequality)

Revue Economique, Vol. 58, No.2, pp. 455-479, 2007

26 Pages Posted: 17 Aug 2012 Last revised: 8 Jun 2013

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Joël Hellier

LEM-CNRS (UMR 9221)

Nathalie Chusseau

University of Lille I - EQUIPPE; MESHS-CNRS

Date Written: 2007

Abstract

We analyse the influence of North-South openness on technological change and on inequalities between skilled and unskilled workers in the advanced countries (the ‘North’). A North-South model of endogenous growth based on technological knowledge is constructed and simulated according to 3 scenarios: autarky, North-South openness with flexible labour markets, and openness with a minimum wage in the North. The model shows that North-South openness (i) increases the skill premium and reduces R&D and the productivity growth when labour markets are perfectly competitive, and (ii) increases R&D and productivity at the expense of the less skilled employment when there is a minimum wage. In the long term, openness with a minimum wage in the North is the best situation in terms of real income per head.

Keywords: Inequality, Minimum wage, North-South openness, Technical change

JEL Classification: F43, J30, O30, O40

Suggested Citation

Hellier, Joël and Chusseau, Nathalie, Impact De L’Ouverture Nord-Sud Sur Le Progrès Technique Et Les Inégalités Salariales (The Impact of North-South Trade upon Technical Change and Wage Inequality) (2007). Revue Economique, Vol. 58, No.2, pp. 455-479, 2007, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2130932

Joël Hellier (Contact Author)

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Nathalie Chusseau

University of Lille I - EQUIPPE ( email )

Université Lille 1 Sciences et Technologies
Faculté des Sciences Economiques et Sociales
Villeneuve d'Ascq, 59655
France

MESHS-CNRS ( email )

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