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The impact of international trade on wages

Feenstra, Robert C. (ed.) - 2000

an increasing share of available income, while low-skilled workers have seen an absolute decline in real wages. How and … escalation of high-skill wages. This collection brings together innovative new ideas and data sources in order to provide more … on U.S. wages. This timely volume offers a thorough appraisal of the wage distribution predicament, examining the …

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Globalization, Markups and U.S. Welfare

Feenstra, Robert C. - 2010

This paper is the first attempt to structurally estimate the impact of globalization on markups, and the effect of changing markups on welfare, in a monopolistic competition model. To achieve this, we work with a class of preferences that allow for endogenous markups and firm entry and exit that...

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Inequality and Unemployment in a Global Economy

Helpman, Elhanan - 2008

This paper develops a new framework for examining the distributional consequences of trade liberalization that is consistent with increasing inequality in every country, growth in residual wage inequality, rising unemployment, and reallocation within and between industries. While the opening of...

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Globalization and Wage Inequality

Helpman, Elhanan - 2016

the early 1990s focused on a particular mechanism that links trade to wages, subsequent studies have considered several …

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