@techreport{NBERw14672, title = "Matching and Inequality in the World Economy", author = "Arnaud Costinot and Jonathan Vogel", institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research", type = "Working Paper", series = "Working Paper Series", number = "14672", year = "2009", month = "January", URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w14672", abstract = {This paper develops tools and techniques to study the impact of exogenous changes in factor supply and factor demand on factor allocation and factor prices in economies with a large number of goods and factors. The main results of our paper characterize sufficient conditions for robust monotone comparative statics predictions in a Roy-like assignment model. These general results are then used to generate new insights about the consequences of globalization.}, }