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Trade Liberalization and Gender Inequality

By Chinhui Juhn, Gergely Ujhelyi, and Carolina Villegas-Sanchez

American Economic Review, May 2013

We consider a model where firms differ in their productivity and workers are differentiated by skill and gender. A reduction in tariffs induces more productive firms to modernize their technology and enter the export market. New technologies involve compu...

A Theory of Outsourcing and Wage Decline

By Thomas J. Holmes and Julia Thornton Snider

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, May 2011

This paper develops a theory of outsourcing in which the circumstances under which factors of production can grab rents play the leading role. One factor has monopoly power (call this labor) while a second factor does not (call this capital). There are t...