Variety-skill complementarity: A simple resolution of the trade-wage inequality anomaly

Economic Theory

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 297-325

  Kurokawa, Yoshinori ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Extensive margin; Trade; Variety skill complementarity; Wage inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 78751582291     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: 14320479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00199-010-0536-z     Document Type: Article

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