Are Your Wages Set in Beijing?
- 1 August 1995
- journal article
- Published by American Economic Association in Journal of Economic Perspectives
- Vol. 9 (3) , 15-32
- https://doi.org/10.1257/jep.9.3.15
Abstract
The economic troubles of less-skilled workers in the United States. and OECD-Europe during a period of rising manufacturing imports from third world countries has created a debate about whether, in a global economy, wages or employment are determined by the global rather than domestic labor-market conditions. One side argues that trade is all that matters; another side, that trade does not matter at all. The author rejects these polar views; empirical analysis has found modest but real trade effects in displacement of less-skilled labor and declines in the price of goods produced by low-skilled workers.Keywords
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