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Share ribs redux
Author(s) -
Jones Ronald W.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
international journal of economic theory
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.351
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 1742-7363
pISSN - 1742-7355
DOI - 10.1111/j.1742-7363.2009.00125.x
Subject(s) - factor shares , economics , distributive property , redux , commodity , market share , value (mathematics) , econometrics , distribution (mathematics) , microeconomics , market economy , mathematics , production (economics) , statistics , mathematical analysis , finance , pure mathematics , engineering , aerospace engineering
Attempts to examine how commodity price changes affect internal income distribution in competitive Heckscher–Ohlin settings have typically focused on factor‐intensity differences among sectors, with each sector having a different factor being used most intensively, as captured by its factor distributive share having maximal value. This paper adopts this specification, but adds the restriction that the shape of the profile of distributive factor shares, from most to least intensively used, be the same among commodities. The focus is on the importance of the amount by which the most intensively used factor differs from the next as well as the rate of decline of shares for the less intensively used factors in any industry. Strong Stolper–Samuelson results are obtained for some share ribs, and oscillating factor returns for others.