外包与要素价格:从特定要素模型角度的分析

本文通过建立两种商品多种投入要素的特定要素小国模型来分析外包对要素价格的影响。如果将土地和熟练劳动视为特定要素,本文发现通过生产率效应和要素供给效应的传导机制,外包有利于特定要素所有者,不利于非熟练劳动,扩大了熟练劳动与非熟练劳动的相对工资,该结论与外包中间品的要素密集度、均衡状态时是否为完全专业化外包和资本的国际流动无关。即使非熟练劳动通过培训可以向熟练劳动升级,但并不一定会缓和本国的相对工资差距。

Outsourcing and Factor Price: Analysis from the View of Specific Factor Model

This paper uses a specific-factors framework of 2 final goods in a small country case to investigate factor price effect of outsourcing. By taking land and skilled labor as a specific factor,we find that fragmentation will benefit the specific factors,hurt unskilled labor,and enlarge the skilled and unskilled wage gap through the mechanism of productivity effect and factor-supply effect. This conclusion is irrelevant with international capital mobility,factor intensity and complete or incomplete specializat...