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With whom do you trade? Defensive innovation and the skill-bias

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  • Pushan Dutt
  • Daniel Traça

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We examine whether increased trade with countries with ineffective protection of intellectual property has contributed to the skill-deepening of the 1980s. We construct an index of effective protection of intellectual property at the country level, combining data on protection of patents and rule of law. Next, we construct an industry-specific version of this index, using as weights each country's trade share in the total trade of the industry. We find a decline in this trade-weighted index, owing to a rise in trade with countries with low effective protection of intellectual property, which explains 29% of the rise in within-industry skill-intensity.

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  • Pushan Dutt & Daniel Traça, 2010. "With whom do you trade? Defensive innovation and the skill-bias," Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Economics Association, vol. 43(4), pages 1198-1220, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:cje:issued:v:43:y:2010:i:4:p:1198-1220
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5982.2010.01611.x
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    1. Katharina Längle, 2020. "Offshoring: What Consequences for Workers? Evidence from Global Value Chains," Post-Print halshs-02899944, HAL.
    2. Katharina Längle, 2020. "Offshoring: What Consequences for Workers? Evidence from Global Value Chains," Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers) hal-02548691, HAL.
    3. Katharina Längle, 2020. "Offshoring: What Consequences for Workers? Evidence from Global Value Chains," Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne 20005, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1), Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne.
    4. Katharina Längle, 2020. "Offshoring: What Consequences for Workers? Evidence from Global Value Chains," Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers) halshs-02899944, HAL.
    5. Katharina Längle, 2020. "Offshoring: What Consequences for Workers? Evidence from Global Value Chains," Working Papers hal-02548691, HAL.

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    JEL classification:

    • F14 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Empirical Studies of Trade
    • F16 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade and Labor Market Interactions
    • J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials

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