Are US Wages Really Determined by European Labor-Market Institutions?

Jürgen Meckl ()

No 1817, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper integrates institutionally determined wage rigidities into an otherwise standard Heckscher-Ohlin model of international trade. It accounts for differences in individual productivities and their implications for individual wage incomes and demand for education. Although preserving the factor-price-equalization property of the global equilibrium approach, the model does not support the view expressed by Davis (1998) that global equilibrium links insulate the US labor market from exogenous shocks. It provides a foundation of the derived from comparative studies that do not consistently account for the global general equilibrium links.

Keywords: skill-specific unemployment; wage rigidities; international trade; education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F11 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 16 pages
Date: 2005-10
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Published - published in: American Economic Review, 2006, 96 (5), 1924-1930

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