With whom do you trade? Defensive innovation and the skill-bias
Author: Dutt, Pushan ; Traça, Daniel A.INSEAD Area: Economics and Political Science Series: Working Paper ; 2010/12/EPS Publisher: Fontainebleau : INSEAD, 2010.Language: EnglishType of document: INSEAD Working PaperAbstract: We examine whether increased trade with countries with ineffective protection of intellectual property has contributed to the skill deepening of the 1980s. We construct an index of effective protection of intellectual property at the country level, combining data on protection of patents and rule of law. Next, we construct an industry-specific version of this index, using as weights each countrys trade share in the total trade of the industry. We find a decline in this trade-weighted index, due to a rise in trade with countries with low effective protection of intellectual property, which explains 29% of the rise in within-industry skill intensity.| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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We examine whether increased trade with countries with ineffective protection of intellectual property has contributed to the skill deepening of the 1980s. We construct an index of effective protection of intellectual property at the country level, combining data on protection of patents and rule of law. Next, we construct an industry-specific version of this index, using as weights each countrys trade share in the total trade of the industry. We find a decline in this trade-weighted index, due to a rise in trade with countries with low effective protection of intellectual property, which explains 29% of the rise in within-industry skill intensity.
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