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tries over the same period.⁴ More specifically, it shows the proportion of the
population aged over 25 with post-secondary education. We observe that
the countries with the highest post-secondary education attainment levels
are those with exports dominated by high-tech products. In particular, we
notice that while in the beginning of the 1980s Korea’ s attainment level
was close to that of Argentina’s and Poland’s by the end of the 1990s it had
reached considerably higher levels.

Figure 2: Educational Attainment

Our aim in this paper is to provide a theoretical understanding of the
conditions under which it is optimal for governments to encourage shifts in
production that will eventually lead to a reversal in their patterns of trade.
A number of recent papers, (Ishikawa, 1996; Grossman and Maggi, 2002;
Grossman, 2004; Bougheas and Riezman, 2007) examine the relationship
between an exogenous distribution of human capital endowments and the
patterns of trade. In this paper, we make the distribution of human capital

⁴The data comes from Barro and Lee (2001).

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