Trade with Time Zone Differences: Factor Market Implications

Toru Kikuchi, Sugata Marjit and Biswajit Mandal

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Abstract: The main purpose of this study is to illustrate, with a simple two-factor (skilled and unskilled labor) model, how a time-saving improvement in business-services trade benefitting from differences in time zones can have an impact on national factor markets. In doing so, we intend to capture the situation where the night-shift work in one country is replaced by the day-shift work in another country. In other words, we will show that, trade with time zone differences will result in shifts of the relative supplies and demands for skilled labor around the globe.

Keywords: Time Zone Differences; Trade in Business Services; Skilled and Unskilled Labor; Day-shift and Night-shift Work (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011, Revised 2012
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Journal Article: Trade with Time Zone Differences: Factor Market Implications (2013)
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