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Foreign competition and wage inequality
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The author argues that increased foreign competition can affect technical choice and skill differentials even when actual imports do not rise significantly. A model is presented of general oligopolistic equilibrium (GOLE) in which a reduction in import barriers (whether technological or policy–imposed) encourages more strategic investment by incumbent firms. The predictions accord with many of the stylized facts: higher skill premia; higher ratios of skilled to unskilled workers employed in a...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Blackwell Publishing Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Review of International Economics Journal website
- Volume:
- 10
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 680-693
- Publication date:
- 2002-11-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1467-9396
- ISSN:
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0965-7576
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- English
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- ora:2130
- Deposit date:
- 2008-06-27
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- Copyright holder:
- Blackwell Publishers Ltd
- Copyright date:
- 2002
- Notes:
- Citation: Neary, J. P. (2002). 'Foreign competition and wage inequality', Review of International Economics, 10(4), 680-693. The definitive version is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9396.00358.
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