TY  - JOUR
AU  - Irwin,Douglas A.
TI  - Ohlin Versus Stolper-Samuelson?
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 7641
PY  - 2000
Y2  - April 2000
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w7641
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w7641.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Douglas A. Irwin
Department of Economics
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH  03755
Tel: 603/646-2942
Fax: 603/646-2122
E-Mail: douglas.irwin@dartmouth.edu
AB  - This paper examines Bertil Ohlin's analysis of trade policy and factor rewards in the context of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century United States.  A leading question of the day was whether labor could benefit from protection.  Ohlin suspected that labor could benefit from protection and his writings helped spawn the Stolper-Samuelson theorem, which was different from but consistent with Ohlin's approach.  This paper seeks to find evidence on whether U.S. tariffs on imported labor-intensive manufactures helped enhance the income of labor at the expense of capital and land.  The answer is unclear: vastly different conclusions arise from a calibrated general equilibrium Ohlin-style model and a factor content of trade calculation indirect evidence from lobbying and voting patterns over the tariff are also ambiguous.
ER  -