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Effect of Trade on the Demand for Skilled and Unskilled Workers

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  • Chinkook Lee
  • Gerald Schluter

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We use an input-output model to examine the effects of trade and domestic consumption, technology and labor productivity on skilled and unskilled worker demand. We found that trade was not the major contributor to changes in demand for skilled and unskilled labor during 1972-92, counter to the continuing debate on the trade-widening wage gap linkage. We found that skill intensity, i.e. the ratio of high-skilled to low-skilled workers for exports compared with imports, exceeded one during 1972-92, but did not increase. We explore alternative definitions of skilled and unskilled, and find our results to be robust to these alternative definitions.

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  • Chinkook Lee & Gerald Schluter, 1999. "Effect of Trade on the Demand for Skilled and Unskilled Workers," Economic Systems Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 11(1), pages 49-66.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ecsysr:v:11:y:1999:i:1:p:49-66
    DOI: 10.1080/09535319900000005
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    1. Zeng, Xiangquan & Yuxue, Cui & Shisong, Qing & Yumei, Yang, 2011. "Real Exchange Rate, Foreign Trade and Employment: Evidence from China," IZA Discussion Papers 5931, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    2. Pradhan, Jaya Prakash, 2005. "How Do Trade, Foreign Investment, and Technology Affect Employment Patterns in Organized Indian Manufacturing?," MPRA Paper 19010, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    3. Schluter, Gerald E. & Lee, Chinkook, 2004. "Is There a Link between the Changing Skills of Labor Used in U.S. Processed Food Trade and Rural Employment?," Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Southern Agricultural Economics Association, vol. 36(3), pages 1-13, December.
    4. Tooba Shojaie & Amir Mansour Tehranchian, 2018. "New Empirical Evidence on the Determinants of Capital Intensity: An Adaptive Comparison of Iran and China," International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues, Econjournals, vol. 8(2), pages 94-100.
    5. Wilkinson, Timothy & Brouthers, Lance Eliot, 2006. "Trade promotion and SME export performance," International Business Review, Elsevier, vol. 15(3), pages 233-252, June.
    6. Lee, Chinkook & Schluter, Gerald E., 2001. "Consolidation, Economies Of Scale, And The Heckshcer-Ohlin Theory Of Trade - An Empirical Analysis Of Us Meat Processing Industry," 2001: International Trade in Livestock Products Symposium, January 2001, Auckland, New Zealand 14559, International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium.

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