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Week 10
Fall 2016
14.54 International Trade— Lecture 16: Trade and Inequality —
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Today’s Plan
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Trade and Wage Inequality Trade and Regional Inequality
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1. Trade and Wage Inequality
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Rising Wage Inequality in U.S.
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Rising Wage Inequality in U.S.: College Premium
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Why Has U.S. Wage Inequality Risen: Supply or Demand?
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Similar Pattern for the Relative Wages and Employment of Nonproduction/Production Workers
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U.S. Wage Inequality and Welfare
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U.S. Wage Inequality and Welfare
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U.S. Wage Inequality and Welfare
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Problem (I): Absence of Relative Price Changes
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Problem (II): Within vs. Between Demand Shifts
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Early Conclusion on Trade and Wage Inequality
Stolper-Samuelson mechanism unlikely to have contributed to increase inequality in the United States in the 90s Most likely candidate: Skill-Biased Technological Change Other possible candidate: trade in Intermediate Goods/Offshoring (see Feenstra and Hanson)
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Is It Still True Today?
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Trade and Regional Inequality
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The China Shock
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The China Shock but shock varies across industries...
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The China Shock and hence across local labor markets...
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The China Shock and demographic groups...
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Labor Market Consequences across Regions
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Government Transfers
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But What About the Aggregate Effects of China?
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