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Record W3102192018 · doi:10.1163/2667078x-00502005

Does Trade with Low-wage Countries Cause Wage Inequality?

2004· article· en· W3102192018 on OpenAlexaff
Jaleel Ahmad

Bibliographic record

VenueAsian international studies review · 2004
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicGlobal trade and economics
Canadian institutionsConcordia University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEconomicsWage inequalitySubsidyInequalityWageLabour economicsTechnological changeCapital (architecture)Efficiency wageProduction (economics)Low wageMacroeconomicsMarket economy

Abstract

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This paper investigates the question as to whether trade with low-wage countries has contributed to wage inequality in high-income countries, as predicted by the Stolper-Samuelson theorem. The analysis is undertaken within the framework of a simple two-sector model. A major innovation of the study is to incorporate the role of trade barriers and subsidies in inducing skill-augmenting technological changes in import-affected sectors and, hence, in reducing the demand for and wages of unskilled labor. In particular, factor bias arising from the move toward capital- and skill-based production may have contributed to other trends in wage inequality. The paper finds that trade pressures alone could not have been much of a reason for pronounced wage inequality.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.007
Threshold uncertainty score0.024

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0020.001
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.066
GPT teacher head0.278
Teacher spread0.212 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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