TY  - JOUR
AU  - Costinot,Arnaud
AU  - Vogel,Jonathan
TI  - Matching and Inequality in the World Economy
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 14672
PY  - 2009
Y2  - January 2009
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w14672
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w14672.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Arnaud Costinot
Department of Economics
MIT, E52-243B
50 Memorial Drive
Cambridge MA 02142-1347
Tel: 617/324-1712
Fax: 617/253-1330
E-Mail: costinot@mit.edu

Jonathan Vogel
Department of Economics
Columbia University
420 West 118th Street
New York, NY 10027
Tel: 212/854-9925
Fax: 212/854-8059
E-Mail: jvogel@columbia.edu
AB  - 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.
ER  -