Given the increasing sensitivity of buyers in the richer countries towards quality of goods they consume, low-quality exports largely constrain export-growth of
We examine a generalized version of Flam and Helpman's (1987) model of vertical differentiation that maps cross-country differences in income distributions to v
This paper analyses the relationship between a country's income distribution and its exports' unit values. Using bilateral export flows, we not only confirm the
"Cline also finds that trade liberalization has tended to raise skilled wages rather than reduce unskilled wages. Moreover, its impact has probably been no larg