贸易开放与收入不平等——国际研究新进展

Recent Developments on the Issue of Trade Openness and Income Inequality

贸易开放与国民收入及其分配的关系历来是经济学界关注的重点领域。由于传统理论在解释现实问题时存在局限性,一些贸易可能影响收入不平等的新渠道引起了更多关注,主要包括异质性、离岸外包、隐性契约以及劳动力市场等。对相关研究进展进行梳理表明,新的研究模型设定更贴合现实,研究内容也有所拓展,研究角度更多从宏观向微观转变,从异质性、隐性契约等角度展开的研究将是未来主要方向。

The relationship between trade openness and the national income distribution has long been one of the most heated topics among economists.Due to the limitations of the traditional theory in explaining the practical problems,some new channels through which trade may affect income inequality have attracted more attention,mainly include economic agglomeration,heterogeneity,offshore outsourcing,implicit contract,and the labor market.Review of the latest research progress show that the model specification has been more realistic,the research content has ex-panded,the research perspective has also transferred from macro to micro.Studies undertaken from the angle of het-erogeneity,implicit contract will be the main direction of future research.