Trade, SBTC and Skill Premia – A Cross-Country and Cross-Gender Analysis
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چکیده
A recent study by Autor et al. (2008) has pointed out that the skill premia has risen in the US since the 60s. Several other authors have highlighted these trends across different OECD countries (e.g., Katz and Murphy, 1992; Machin, 1996; Goldin and Katz, 1999; Chay and Lee, 2000, Conte and Vivarelli, 2007). A common consensus points to the on-going growth of the demand for high-skilled workers, of which the Skill-Biased Technical Change (SBTC) and International Trade (IT) are the often cited sources.
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