Technology, Trade, and Increasing Inequality: Does the Cause Matter for the Cure

Alan Deardorff

Working Papers from Michigan - Center for Research on Economic & Social Theory

Abstract: This paper addresses an issue that has received a great deal of attention in recent years, both from international trade economists and from labor economists: What has caused the relative wage of skilled labor compared to unskilled labor in the United States to increase through the 1980s and 1990s?

Keywords: TRADE; WAGES; LABOUR MARKET (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F10 F11 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38 pages
Date: 1998
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