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The Effect of Trade in Demand for Skill in Emerging Economies / Maria Jose Orraca Corona.
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- Thesis/Dissertation
- Author/Creator:
- Corona, Maria Jose Orraca, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economics.
- Economics--Penn dissertations.
- Penn dissertations--Economics.
- Local Subjects:
- Economics.
- Economics--Penn dissertations.
- Penn dissertations--Economics.
- Genre:
- Academic theses.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (59 pages)
- Contained In:
- Dissertation Abstracts International 80-02A(E).
- Place of Publication:
- [Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] : University of Pennsylvania ; Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018.
- Language Note:
- English
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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- Summary:
- This dissertation explores the effect of trade in demand for skill in an unskilled labor abundant country. I use the case of Mexico to document that exporters are on average more skill-intensive than non exporters, yet conditional on exporting skill intensity is negatively correlated with export sales. I build a model to explain these two observations simultaneously and estimate it for two Mexican manufacturing industries in 2003. A counterfactual analysis illustrates that when trade costs decrease, resources are reallocated to the most skilled-intensive firms within industries but toward the unskilled-intensive tasks within industries. When trade costs are high, the first effect dominates and skill premium increases. When trade costs are sufficiently low, comparative advantage in unskilled intensive activities dominates and skill premium decreases. This pattern matches the observed behavior of skill premium in Mexican manufacturing industry following trade liberalization reforms.
- Notes:
- Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 80-02(E), Section: A.
- Advisors: Ana Cecilia Fieler; Committee members: Alessandro Dovis; Ann Harrison.
- Department: Economics.
- Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania 2018.
- Local Notes:
- School code: 0175
- ISBN:
- 9780438423763
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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