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Market interconnection and wages

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  • Oladi, Reza
  • Beladi, Hamid

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We show that wage behavior as well as the skilled-unskilled wage gap depend on elasticity of import demand. Although, our analysis is in the spirit of the Stolper-Samuelson theorem, factor intensity plays no role in our results.

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  • Oladi, Reza & Beladi, Hamid, 2009. "Market interconnection and wages," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 105(1), pages 117-119, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:105:y:2009:i:1:p:117-119
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