Browsing Department of Economics by Subject "Wage Inequality"
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(Vanderbilt University, 2001)This paper develops a North-South trade model in which the South produces food and the North produces both food and a high-tech good. Food production is undertaken by unskilled workers while the high-tech product is made ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2002)In this paper, I examine the sources of wage inequality changes among prime age male workers in Brazil during the 1980's and 1990's. Inequality increased in the 1980's and decreased in the 1990's. I begin by decomposing ...