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

DOI10.1007/s00199-010-0536-zzbMath1205.91132OpenAlexW1976681950MaRDI QIDQ623453

Yoshinori Kurokawa

Publication date: 14 February 2011

Published in: Economic Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://tsukuba.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/24431/files/ET_46-2.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

tradewage inequalityextensive marginvariety-skill complementarity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical methods; economic indices and measures (91B82)

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