An interpretation of the factor content of trade
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This paper showed that the factor content of trade can be used to indicate effects of trade on relative factor prices, and that there is a positive correlation between relative changes in the factor contents of trade, appropriately normalized, and proportional changes in factor prices.About:
This article is published in Journal of International Economics.The article was published on 1988-02-01 and is currently open access. It has received 114 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Comparative advantage & Autarky.read more
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The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States
TL;DR: This paper analyzed the effect of Chinese import competition between 1990 and 2007 on US local labor markets, exploiting cross-market variation in import exposure stemming from initial diffe cerence to US labor markets.
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Changes in the Wage Structure and Earnings Inequality
Lawrence F. Katz,David H. Autor +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a framework for understanding changes in the wage structure and overall earnings inequality, emphasizing the role of supply and demand factors and the interaction of market forces and labor market institutions.
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Implications of skill-biased technological change: international evidence
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that pervasive skill-biased technological change, rather than increased trade with the development world, is the principal culprit for job losses in the US and other developed countries.
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Implications of Skill-Biased Technological Change: International Evidence
TL;DR: This paper found that the more countries experiencing a skill-biased technological change, the greater its potential to decrease the relative wages of less-skilled labor by increasing the world supply of unskill-intensive goods.
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International Trade Theory: The Evidence
TL;DR: The authors provides a critical look at recent empirical work in international trade theory and addresses the issue of why empirical work has perhaps not been as influential as it could have been, and also provides several suggestions on directions for future empirical research in International Trade.
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Theory of international trade
TL;DR: In this article, the authors expound trade theory emphasizing that a trading equilibrium is general rather than partial, and is often best modelled using dual or envelope functions, and give unified treatments of comparative statics and welfare, sheds new light on the factor-price equalization issue, and treats the modern specific-factor model in parallel with the usual Heckscher-Ohlin one.
Domestic production and foreign trade: the american capital position reexamined
TL;DR: The theory of comparative costs was originally developed in the writings of David Ricardo and other so-called classical economists of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries as mentioned in this paper, and it still constitutes the basis of the modern theory of international trade.
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Multicountry, Multifactor Tests of the Factor Abundance Theory
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present conceptually correct tests of the Heckscher-Ohlin proposition that trade in commodities can be explained in terms of an interaction between factor input requirements and factor endowments.
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Multicountry, Multifactor Tests of the Factor Abundance Theory
TL;DR: The Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek model as mentioned in this paper predicts relationships among industry input requirements, country resource supplies, and international trade in commodities, and these relationships are tested using data on twelve resources, and the trade of twenty-seven countries in 1967.
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