Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/21180 
Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 324
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
The deterioration of the income and employment position of unskilled workers in the OECD area since the 1980s is a well-documented fact. The debate about the causes of this development is dominated by two competing hypotheses, "North-South Trade" or "globalisation" and technological progress. Several empirical strategies have been used to identify the importance of technological and globalisation shocks: factor content analyses, consistency checks, regression analyses and numerical methods. However, no consensus has been achieved so far and there is considerable methodological controversy. This paper uses the Jones model as theoretical backbone to identify and settle the sources of disagreement, to consolidate recent results, to derive new insights and to provide an integrative assessment of the different empirical strategies.
Subjects: 
North-South Trade
technology
wage inequality
unemployment
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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