Thus, the Leontief paradox was generated, as the United States, with the greatest endowment of capital, exported mostly labour intensive goods, while importing capital intensive commodities.
Following a long development of models that tried to construe trade based on production advantages and production factor endowment and subsequent to the onset of the Leontief paradox, the theory, first proposed by Staffan Burenstam Linder in 1961, asserted that the structure and similarities of demand found in world economies dictated larger flows of trade (Linder, 1961).
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Hence, there is no Leontief Paradox in the United States for the period 1965-1991 in our framework.
Section IV presents the FCT for each factor and discusses the Leontief Paradox.
Thus, it is evident that, for this period, there is no Leontief Paradox in the U.
The authors move from describing the popular reasoning to explain the
Leontief paradox and the balance of jobs methods for assessing globalization effects on employment.
This famous result, dubbed the
Leontief paradox, was to stimulate a number of doctoral dissertations in the U.
It also touches on the possible explanations of the
Leontief Paradox and some recent extensions of the framework.
Perhaps the most widely known is the Leontief Paradox, associated with the rather startling results presented by Leontief (1953) that the trade pattern of the United States suggested that its export sectors were more labor-intensive than factor proportions found in its import-competing sectors.
Once again I ignore the Leontief Paradox in this catalogue.
