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Title: Trade Imbalances, Export Structure and Wage Inequality

Author(s): Rosario Crinò and Paolo Epifani

Publication Date: March 2014

Keyword(s): Average Skill Intensity of Exports, North-South Trade Imbalances and skill premia

Programme Area(s): International Trade and Regional Economics

Abstract: We study, both theoretically and empirically, how trade imbalances affect the structure of countries' exports and wage inequality. We show that, in a Heckscher-Ohlin model with a continuum of goods, a Southern (Northern) trade surplus leads to an increase (reduction) in the average skill intensity of exports, in the relative demand for skills and in the skill premium in both countries. We provide robust support for the mechanism underlying these predictions using a large panel of countries observed over the past 30 years. Our results suggest that the large and growing North-South trade imbalances arisen over the last three decades may have exacerbated wage inequality worldwide.

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Crinò, R and Epifani, P. 2014. 'Trade Imbalances, Export Structure and Wage Inequality'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=9900