Market interconnection and wages

Reza Oladi and Hamid Beladi

Economics Letters, 2009, vol. 105, issue 1, 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
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