Export variety and human capital distribution
This paper provides evidence that a country’s human capital distribution has an impact on its export variety of differentiated products. In this paper, we used US imports from 41 countries across the globe – Asia, the Americas, Europe and Australia – to estimate the export variety of differentiated...
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sg-ntu-dr.10356-444022019-12-10T13:51:56Z Export variety and human capital distribution Lim, Grace Hui Qi Gan, Luhui School of Humanities and Social Sciences Wang Wei-Siang DRNTU::Social sciences::Economic theory::International trade This paper provides evidence that a country’s human capital distribution has an impact on its export variety of differentiated products. In this paper, we used US imports from 41 countries across the globe – Asia, the Americas, Europe and Australia – to estimate the export variety of differentiated products (as classified by Rauch’s classification) for each (differentiated) product exported by the 41 countries to the US. We also used internationally comparable test scores from the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) to derive a proxy for human capital distribution. Our results show that for high income countries, the more diverse their workforce is, the higher the export variety of differentiated products while for low income countries, the less diverse their workforce is, the higher the export variety of differentiated products. Bachelor of Arts 2011-06-01T04:59:31Z 2011-06-01T04:59:31Z 2011 2011 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/44402 en Nanyang Technological University 33 p. application/pdf |
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This paper provides evidence that a country’s human capital distribution has an impact on its export variety of differentiated products. In this paper, we used US imports from 41 countries across the globe – Asia, the Americas, Europe and Australia – to estimate the export variety of differentiated products (as classified by Rauch’s classification) for each (differentiated) product exported by the 41 countries to the US. We also used internationally comparable test scores from the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) to derive a proxy for human capital distribution. Our results show that for high income countries, the more diverse their workforce is, the higher the export variety of differentiated products while for low income countries, the less diverse their workforce is, the higher the export variety of differentiated products. |
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