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N° 2005-17 |
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| October 2005 |
| International Trade and Income Distribution:
Reconsidering the Evidence |
Isabelle Bensidoun
Sébastien Jean
Aude Sztulman |
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| This paper reconsiders the evidence concerning
the influence of international trade on income distribution. Our analysis is based
on a theoretical model which does not make any restrictive assumption about how
trade specialization is linked to factor endowments. In this framework, the influence
of international trade changes on income distribution is captured by a specific
definition of the factor content of net export changes. Our main empirical finding
is that the factor content of net export changes, expressed relatively to the
country's factor endowment, does have a significant impact on income distribution,
but the sign and magnitude of this impact is conditional on country’s income
level or on the share of non-educated in the population. |
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| F11, F16, D30 |
JEL classification |
| International trade; Income distribution |
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