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The Contribution of Trade to Wage Inequality: The Role of Skill, Gender, and Nationality / Michael W. Klein, Christoph Moser, Dieter M. Urban.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Klein, Michael W.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w15985.
- NBER working paper series no. w15985
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- The Contribution of Trade to Wage Inequality
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2010.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- May 2010.
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