Measures of Intra‐Industry Trade as Indicators of Factor Market Disruption

Peter Dixon and Jayant Menon ()

The Economic Record, 1997, vol. 73, issue 222, 233-247

Abstract: Concepts of intra‐industry trade (IIT) are often used to indicate the extent to which trade growth is accommodated without factor market disruption. The most common indicators are movements in Grubel‐Lloyd indexes. However, these are sometimes misleading. We develop two other indicators. The first involves changes in IIT. While this provides a measure of the contribution of ITT growth to trade growth, it can over‐estimate the contribution of non‐disruptive trade growth. This problem is overcome by our second indicator, the contribution of dynamic intra‐industry trade or matched changes in trade. All three indicators are illustrated with Australian manufacturing data.

Date: 1997
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Working Paper: Measures of Intra-Industry Trade as Indicators for Factor Market Disruption (1995)
Working Paper: Measures of Intra-Industry Trade as Indicators of Factor Market Disruption
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