TRADE, TECHNOLOGY AND LABOR PRODUCTIVITY EFFECTS ON THE DEMAND FOR SKILLED AND UNSKILLED WORKERS: IMPLICATIONS FOR RURAL AREASChinkook Lee and Gerald Schluter () No 20979, 1998 Annual meeting, August 2-5, Salt Lake City, UT from American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association) Abstract: An I/O model of U.S. is used to examine the effects of trade and domestic consumption on the separate and interactive effects of trade, technology, and labor productivity on the demand for skilled and unskilled workers for 1972, 1987, and 1993. The results suggest that trade has not been the major contributor to changes in demand for skilled vs. unskilled labor during the period examined, counter to the continuing debate on theory and on evidence supporting the trade- widening wage gap linkage. We found the ratio of high skilled to low-skilled workers was higher for exports than imports and has risen over time, suggesting that U. S. has moved toward more skilled-labor intensive exports. The effect of trade on rural workers is to reinforce structural trends already working to the disadvantage of rural workers. Keywords: International Relations/Trade; Labor and Human Capital (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:aaea98:20979 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in 1998 Annual meeting, August 2-5, Salt Lake City, UT from American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association) Contact information at EDIRC. |
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