Trade Liberalisation, Technological Change and Skill-Specific Unemployment

Sabine Engelmann

Journal of Global Economy, 2012, vol. 8, issue 3, 197-224

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to formalise a two-country model of trade liberalisation and technological change with heterogeneous firms and search-and-matching frictions in the labour market. By considering different sectors and factors of production we allow for comparative advantages and study the trade and technology effects within and between sectors on wages and employment of skilled and low-skilled workers. Technological change together with inter-sectoral trade has distributional consequences across the labour force, favouring the skilled against the low-skilled workers. Intra-sectoral trade counteracts as it increases the demand for low-skilled workers, too. The overall effects on wages and employment of skilled and low-skilled workers depend on the extent of technological change, inter-sectoral trade and intra-sectoral trade.

Keywords: trade; technology; heterogeneous firms; labour market frictions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F12 F16 J64 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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