Trade liberalisation, technical change and skill-specific unemployment

Arbeitspapier

The aim of this paper is to formalise a two-country model of trade liberalisation and technical change with heterogenous firms and search-and-matching frictions in the labour market. By considering different sectors and factors of production we allow for comparative advantages and study the trade and technology effects within and between sectors on wages and employment of skilled and low-skilled workers. Technical change together with inter-sectoral trade has distributional consequences across the labour force, favouring the skilled against the low-skilled workers. Intra-sectoral trade counteracts as it increases the demand for low-skilled workers, too. The overall effects on wages and employment of skilled and low-skilled workers depend on the extent of technical change, inter-sectoral trade and intra-sectoral trade.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IAB-Discussion Paper ; No. 19/2011

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation ; Trade and Labor Market Interactions ; Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search ; Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
• Thema: trade ; technology ; heterogeneous firms ; labour market frictions ; Außenhandelsliberalisierung ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Beschäftigungseffekt ; Qualifikation ; Arbeitslosigkeit ; Mehr-Länder-Modell ; Theorie

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Engelmann, Sabine
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB)
• (wo): Nürnberg
• (wann): 2011

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/57452
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ