Market interconnection and wages

Reza Oladi () and Hamid Beladi

Economics Letters, 2009, vol. 105, issue 1, pages 117-119

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Skilled-unskilled; labor; Wage; gap; Terms; of; trade (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6V84 ... 5cf33bdb1044ac04387b
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:105:y:2009:i:1:p:117-119

Access Statistics for this article

Economics Letters is edited by E. Maskin

More articles in Economics Letters from Elsevier
Series data maintained by Heidi Boesdal ().