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Monte, Ferdinando.

Essays in international trade and human capital.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Essays in international trade and human capital.
Author:	Monte, Ferdinando.
Description:	61 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-09, Section: A, page: 3412.
Notes:	Adviser: James J. Heckman.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International72-09A.
Subject:	Economics, General.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3460217
ISBN:	9781124718002

Essays in international trade and human capital.
Monte, Ferdinando.

Essays in international trade and human capital. - 61 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-09, Section: A, page: 3412.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Chicago, 2011.

Wage ratios between different percentiles of the wage distribution have moved in parallel and then diverged in the U.S. in the last 50 years. In this research, I study the theoretical response of wage ratios to skill-biased technical change and trade integration. I build a simple model of heterogeneous technology and heterogeneous workers that features complementarities between the quality of ideas and abilities. I show that changes to the skill bias of technology and to trade costs can both reproduce the observed pattern since (i) they have similar asymmetric effects on productive vs. unproductive firms, and (ii) positive assortative matching in the labor market transmits this asymmetry across high and low skill workers. Focusing on the different channels through which skill-biased technical change and trade integration operate suggests ways to disentangle the magnitude of each.

ISBN: 9781124718002Subjects--Topical Terms:

212429
Economics, General.

Essays in international trade and human capital.
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