International Factor Mobility, Production Cost Components, and Wage Inequality

摘要

AbstractThe present paper establishes a two-sector monopolistic competition model to investigate how international factor mobility influences the skilledunskilled wage inequality when the monopolistically competitive sector producing final goods is characterized by various types of production cost functions. We discuss three types of production cost functions of the monopolistically competitive sector. Different types of production cost functions have different production factor components of variable and fixed costs. We find that differences in production cost components of the monopolistically competitive sector matter for the impacts of international factor mobility on the skilledunskilled wage inequality.