Table 3 Effects of wage gap on labor skill distribution.

From: Effects of global trade integration on skill polarization and wage disparity

Variable

(1)

M-skillt

(2)

Sd-skillt

(3)

sharept

(4)

sharest

(5)

sharett

\(\mathop{\Delta }\limits^{\frown {}}\)1t−1

−0.3721***

(0.0606)

−0.1435

(0.4819)

−0.0510*

(0.0324)

0.0378***

(0.0131)

−0.0150

(0.0263)

\(\mathop{\Delta }\limits^{\frown {}}\)2t−1

0.4128***

(0.0386)

0.3410***

(0.1073)

0.0315

(0.0232)

−0.0203

(0.0147)

0.0702***

(0.0167)

Urban fixed effect

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Year fixed effect

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Observations

665

665

665

665

665

Adjusted R square

0.7427

0.6138

0.7561

0.5990

0.6963

  1. Values in brackets are standard errors, * and *** indicate significance levels of 10% and 1% respectively.