Global Value Chains and Inequality with Endogenous Labor Supply

Eunhee Lee, Kei-Mu Yi

NBER Working Paper No. 24884
Issued in August 2018

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The views expressed here are those of the authors and are not necessarily reflective of views of the Federal Reserve Banks of Dallas, Minneapolis or the Federal Reserve System. We thank Pol Antras, Gordon Hanson, Elhanan Helpman, Chinhui Juhn, Steve Redding and especially Alonso de Gortari for very helpful discussions. We also thank participants at the Asian Meetings of the Econometric Society; the University of Virginia; the NBER Trade and Labor Markets Conference; Hitotsubashi Conference on International Trade and FDI; the 4th Conference on GVCs,

Trade, and Development; U. of Pittsburgh; Johns Hopkins U. SAIS; U. of Texas; World Bank; Brown U.; Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City; the SAET meetings; and the SED meetings for their comments. Heesuk Jung provided excellent research assistance. All errors are our own. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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