Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/121023 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
FIW Working Paper No. 22
Publisher: 
FIW - Research Centre International Economics, Vienna
Abstract: 
Will incomes of low and high skilled workers continue to diverge? Yes says our paper's dynamic, six-good, five-region - U.S., Europe, N.E. Asia (Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong), China, and India -, general equilibrium, life-cycle model. The model predicts a near doubling of the ratio of high- to low-skilled wages over the century. Increasing wage inequality arises from a traditional source - a rising worldwide relative supply of unskilled labor, reflecting Chinese and Indian productivity improvements. But China's and India's education policies matter. If successive Chinese and Indian cohorts become more skilled, major exacerbation of inequality will be precluded.
Subjects: 
Demographic transition
overlapping generations (OLG)
computable general equilibrium models (CGE)
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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