Unequal skill premiums and trade liberalization: Is education the missing link?

Dawood Mamoon and S. Mansoob Murshed

Economics Letters, 2008, vol. 100, issue 2, 262-266

Abstract: We examine the impact of increased trade on wage inequality in developing countries; whether higher human capital stocks moderate this effect. We find countries with a higher level of initial human capital experience less increased wage inequality following increased trade.

Date: 2008
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