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Autor/inn/en | Klein, Michael W.; Moser, Christoph; Urban, Dieter M. |
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Institution | National Bureau of Economic Research |
Titel | The contribution of trade to wage inequality. The role of skill, gender, and nationality. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Der Beitrag des Handels zur Lohnungleichheit. Die Rolle von Qualifikation, Geschlecht und Nationalität. |
Quelle | Cambridge, Mass. (2010), 43 S.
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Reihe | NBER working paper. 15985 |
Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | online; Monographie |
Schlagwörter | Einkommensunterschied; Nationalität; Außenhandel; Export; Verarbeitendes Gewerbe; Qualifikationsniveau; Geschlechtsspezifik; IAB-Linked-Employer-Employee-Datensatz |
Abstract | "International trade has been cited as a source of widening wage inequality in industrial nations. Consistent with this claim, we find a significant export wage premium for high-skilled workers in German manufacturing and an export wage discount for lower skilled workers, using matched employer-employee data. Estimates suggest that the export wage premium to high-skilled workers represents up to one third of their overall skill premium. But, while an increase in exports increases wage inequality along the dimension of skill, it diminishes the wage inequality associated with both gender and nationality. In this way, trade contributes to narrowing wage gaps and mitigating wage inequality in German manufacturing." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku). Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: empirisch-quantitativ; empirisch. Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum 1973 bis 2007. |
Erfasst von | Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg |
Update | 2012/2 |