TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Andersen, Torben M.
AU  - Sørensen, Allan
        TI  - Product Market Integration and Labour Markets: Aggregate Gains at the Cost of More Inequality?
        PY  - 2007/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 2556
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp2556
        AB  - Important labour market consequences of globalization may arise via product market integration which affects the room for wage negotiations and generates job creation and destruction through structural changes. We find in a Ricardian trade model that aggregate increases in wages and employment may conceal important differences across sectors/groups driven by a different balance between "protection" and "specialization" rents. In particular, wage inequality tends to be U-shaped, at first decreasing and then increasing in the process of product market integration. Consequently, there are gains in both the efficiency and the equity dimension until the level of integration reaches a certain level at which a trade-off arises.
        KW  - rent sharing
KW  - relative productivity
KW  - trade frictions
KW  - job turnover
KW  - inequality
        ER  -