Real exchange rates and skills

Vincent Bodart and Jean-François Carpantier

Journal of International Money and Finance, 2016, vol. 67, issue C, 305-319

Abstract: Recent developments in trade theory strongly emphasize that international trade requires an intensive use of skilled workers. Against this background, we explore in this paper whether labor skills are a key determinant of real exchange rates in the long run. Using panel regressions covering 22 countries over the period 1950–2010, we find that labor skills are indeed a structural determinant of real exchange rates, with a permanent increase of the skilled–unskilled labor ratio leading to a long-run appreciation of the real exchange rate. This finding is robust to the inclusion of several control variables, like those used in traditional analyses of real exchange rates.

Keywords: C23; F31; F41; I25; Real exchange rate; Factor endowments; Skills; Balassa–Samuelson effect (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jimonfin.2016.06.008

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