摘要：Labor and skill premiums and their relationships with trade measures aresimultaneously estimated within the framework of an individual level labor supply modelfor Jamaica using truncated regression models. Increased imports from the US werefound to reduce the return to unskilled labor, and increase the skill premium in Jamaica.Increased exports to the US had the opposite effects on returns to Jamaican skilled andunskilled labor.
关键词：skill premium; wage inequality; trade and wages; truncated regression
