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Frontiers of Economics in China

ISSN 1673-3444

ISSN 1673-3568(Online)

CN 11-5744/F

邮发代号 80-978

Frontiers of Economics in China  2015, Vol. 10 Issue (4): 629-642   https://doi.org/10.3868/s060-004-015-0029-1
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Would a North-South Free Trade Agreement Hurt Unskilled Labor in the North?
Chu-Ping Lo()
Department of Agricultural Economics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, China
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Abstract

I present a simple model to examine the impact of international outsourcing on the welfare of skilled and unskilled labor. In this model, specialized business services are to facilitate manufacturing production, creating additional welfare gains in the presence of positive production externalities. Policies that favor the business service sector contribute to the development of a larger bundle of specialized business services, generating more welfare gains to not only skilled but also unskilled labor. Thus, a country’s unskilled labor is not necessarily worse off with open trade if the country is prosperous in business service provisions.

Key wordsinternational outsourcing    wage inequality    free trade agreement
出版日期: 2015-12-28
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. [J]. Frontiers of Economics in China, 2015, 10(4): 629-642.
Chu-Ping Lo. Would a North-South Free Trade Agreement Hurt Unskilled Labor in the North?. Front. Econ. China, 2015, 10(4): 629-642.
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