Import Variety and Skill Premium in a Calibrated General Equilibrium Model: The Case of Mexico
2011/01/21
研討會日期 : 2011-01-21
時間 : 18:00
主講人 : Professor Yoshinori Kurokawa
地點 : B110
演講者簡介 : Yoshinori Kurokawa got his Ph.D. in Economics from University of Minnesota in 2007. He is serving as Assistant Professor of Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences at University of Tsukuba. His research field is in international trade, industrial organization, growth and development, and macroeconomics. He is applying for the position of the Institute of Economics, AS right now.
演講摘要 : It can be theoretically shown that imports of new foreign varieties. the extensive margin－can be a possible source of increased skill premium in wages. No past studies, however, have empirically quantified how much of the increase in skill premium can be accounted for by the increase in the extensive margin. This paper now formulates a static general equilibrium model and then calibrates it to the Mexican input-output matrix for 1987. In the calibrated model, our numerical experiments show that the extensive margin growth in Mexican manufactured imports from the U.S. can account for 6-13 percent of the actual increase in skill premium in Mexico from 1987 to 1994.
