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Quality Differentiation and the Labour Market Effects of International Trade

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  • Giuseppe Celi

    (CELPE University of Salerno, University of Bari)

  • Alasdair Smith

    (CELPE University of Salerno, University of Sussex)

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This paper offers a new treatment of the labour market effects of international trade, based on a model in which intra-industry trade is explained on Heckscher-Ohlin principles. The model is more consistent with stylised facts about North-South trade than the traditional Heckscher-Ohlin model of inter-industry trade. Applying the model to trade between Italy and ‘non-advanced countries’ and inferring the factor content of intra-industry trade from the inter-sectoral relationship between factor intensity and average unit values of exports, we find that the labour market effects of intra- industry trade add significantly to the estimated factor market impact of trade.

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  • Giuseppe Celi & Alasdair Smith, 1999. "Quality Differentiation and the Labour Market Effects of International Trade," CELPE Discussion Papers 50, CELPE - CEnter for Labor and Political Economics, University of Salerno, Italy.
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