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 …

We develop an empirical framework to assess the importance of trade and technical change on the wages of production and … outsourcing and expenditures on high-technology equipment can explain a substantial amount of the increase in the wages of …

In this paper, we examine the increase in the relative wages of skilled workers in Mexico during the 1980s. We argue … the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the share of skilled labor in total wages in Mexico using state … account for over 50 percent of the increase in the skilled labor share of total wages that occurred during the late 1980s …

In this paper we examine the reduction in the relative employment and wages of unskilled workers in the U.S. during the …

market frictions. We characterize the distributions of employment, unemployment, wages and income within and between sectors …

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