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Human Capital, Unemployment and Relative Wages in a Global Economy

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Donald R. Davis
Trevor A. Reeve

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This paper develops a simple framework for examining human capital accumulation, unemployment, and relative wages in a global economy. It builds on the models of Davis (1997a,b) of trade between a flexible wage America and a rigid wage Europe. To this it adds a model of human capital accumulation based on Findlay and Kierzkowski (1983). A variety of comparative statics are examined, including changes in educational capital and population, entry of new countries to the trading world, techniucal change, and a productivity slowdown. We derive the consequences for the skillled-to-unskilled wage gap, unemployment, and skill composition.

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  4. Donald R. Davis, 1996. "Does European Unemployment Prop Up American Wages?," Harvard Institute of Economic Research Working Papers 1752, Harvard - Institute of Economic Research.
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