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Product price differences across countries: determinants and effects
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Abstract A substantial part of international differences in prices of individual products, both goods and services, can be explained by differences in per capita income, wage compression, or low wage dispersion among low-wage workers, and exchange rate fluctuations. Higher per capita income is associated wit... mehr
A substantial part of international differences in prices of individual products, both goods and services, can be explained by differences in per capita income, wage compression, or low wage dispersion among low-wage workers, and exchange rate fluctuations. Higher per capita income is associated with higher prices and higher wage dispersion with lower prices. The effects of higher income and wage dispersion are moderated for the more tradable products. The effects of wage dispersion, on the other hand, are magnified for the more labor-intensive products, particularly low-skill services. The differences in prices across countries are reflected in differences in the composition of consumption. Countries in which prices of labor-intensive services are very high, such as the Nordic countries, consume much less of them. For some services, the shares of GDP consumed in high-price countries are less than 20% of the shares in low-price countries. Since these are services of very low tradability, the low consumption levels of these services imply low employment in them.... weniger
Klassifikation
Volkswirtschaftstheorie
Freie Schlagwörter
International price comparisons; Tradability; Labor intensity; Wage dispersion; Consumption
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2010
Seitenangabe
S. 415-435
Zeitschriftentitel
Review of World Economics, 146 (2010) 3
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10290-010-0064-8
Status
Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)