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Trade liberalisation, prices and the skill premium in South Africa
We look at how trade liberalisation, working through product prices, has affected the skill premium in South Africa over the period 1990-2009. Our main finding is that trade liberalisation lead to a reduction in prices over this period, and through prices mandated a rise in the skill premium of 3.3%...
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| description | We look at how trade liberalisation, working through product prices, has affected the skill premium in South Africa over the period 1990-2009. Our main finding is that trade liberalisation lead to a reduction in prices over this period, and through prices mandated a rise in the skill premium of 3.3%. The structure of the skill premium did not stay constant over the period. In the sub-period 1990-1999, trade liberalisation mandated a fall in the skill premium of 10.6% and in the other sub-period 2000-2009, trade liberalisation mandated a rise in the skill premium of 11.6%. Our main results are consistent with the sector bias of tariff cuts over these periods, however they do not pass some of the robustness checks that we perform. |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/10725 Trade liberalisation, prices and the skill premium in South Africa Mashiane, Jeffrey Edwards, Lawrence Economics We look at how trade liberalisation, working through product prices, has affected the skill premium in South Africa over the period 1990-2009. Our main finding is that trade liberalisation lead to a reduction in prices over this period, and through prices mandated a rise in the skill premium of 3.3%. The structure of the skill premium did not stay constant over the period. In the sub-period 1990-1999, trade liberalisation mandated a fall in the skill premium of 10.6% and in the other sub-period 2000-2009, trade liberalisation mandated a rise in the skill premium of 11.6%. Our main results are consistent with the sector bias of tariff cuts over these periods, however they do not pass some of the robustness checks that we perform. 2014-12-31T19:47:46Z 2014-12-31T19:47:46Z 2011 Master Thesis Masters MCom http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10725 eng application/pdf School of Economics Faculty of Commerce University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Economics Mashiane, Jeffrey Trade liberalisation, prices and the skill premium in South Africa |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Trade liberalisation, prices and the skill premium in South Africa |
| title_full | Trade liberalisation, prices and the skill premium in South Africa |
| title_fullStr | Trade liberalisation, prices and the skill premium in South Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Trade liberalisation, prices and the skill premium in South Africa |
| title_short | Trade liberalisation, prices and the skill premium in South Africa |
| title_sort | trade liberalisation prices and the skill premium in south africa |
| topic | Economics |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10725 |
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