The present section focuses on how to simulate alternative skill dispersions, while the sections below will discuss the derivation of the re-weighting factor in cases where one wishes to simulate alternative skill levels or entire skill distributions (level and dispersion), respectively. Since skill prices are assumed to remain the same, the reweighting results in an alternative wage distribution for country x which allows the calculation of standard wage dispersion and inequality measures. These can then be compared to the statistics calculated using the original wage distribution to estimate the proportion explained by the difference in skills dispersion.