Rising Wage Inequality, Comparative Advantage, and the Growing Importance of General Skills in the United States

2002 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric D. Gould
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Wage Inequality ◽  
Comparative Advantage ◽  
The United States ◽  
General Skills

scholarly journals Competitive Dynamics of Peruvian Grapes in the United States and the Netherlands Markets

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 348
Author(s):  
Meredyth Ernestina Leslye Lazo Calanche ◽  
Diana Vanessa Coca Gonzalez ◽  
Andrea Mariana Carhuaz Casafranca ◽  
Pedro Bernabe Venegas Rodriguez ◽  
Nivardo Alonzo Santillan Zapata
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South Africa ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Comparative Advantage ◽  
Trade Balance ◽  
The United States ◽  
Competitive Dynamics ◽  
Import Penetration

The growth of Peruvian fresh grapes exports encouraged the study of its competitive dynamics in the period 2010-2017. The two main world importers of the product, i.e. the United States and Netherlands were analyzed. The Relative Trade Balance, Tradability indices with the sub-indicators: Export Openness Degree and Import Penetration Degree, Symmetric Comparative Advantage and the Market Insertion Matrix, interlacing Positioning and Efficiency, were estimated. The research found that Peru and South Africa were fresh grapes competitive producers in both markets among 12 evaluated countries.

Wage Dispersion in Finland: Searching for Human Capital

2007 ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Hannu Piekkola
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Wage Inequality ◽  
The United States ◽  
Individual Heterogeneity ◽  
Wage Dispersion ◽  
Major Increase ◽  
D Investment ◽  
Productive Worker ◽  
Boom Period

In Finland, shifts in compensation have been of a kind comparable to those in the United States, similar but with a moderate, increasing wage variance between plants, an increasing gap between average non-productive- and productive-worker wages, and an increasing share of non-production workers. In the boom period of 1995- 1998 the education premium rose. Despite the rise in individual heterogeneity, there has been no major increase in wage dispersion. The entire rise in wage dispersion has taken place between plants, while the education premium dispersion has risen mainly within plants. At the same time, the distribution of capital and Research and Development (R&D) investment across firms has worked in the direction of mitigating wage inequality.

Wages and Employment in the United States and Germany:What Explains the Differences?

2003 ◽  
Vol 93 (3) ◽  
pp. 573-602 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Beaudry ◽  
David A Green
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Technological Change ◽  
Wage Inequality ◽  
Physical Capital ◽  
The United States ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Parallel Fashion

Over the last 20 years the wage-education relationships in the United States and Germany have evolved very differently, while the education compositions of employment have evolved in a parallel fashion. In this paper, we show how these patterns shed light on the nature of recent technological change and highlight the importance of taking into account movements in the ratio of human capital to physical capital when examining changes in the returns to skill. Our analysis indicates that the United States could have prevented the increase in wage inequality observed in the 1980's by a faster accumulation of physical capital.

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