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The impact of international trade on wages
Feenstra, Robert C. (ed.) - 2000
Since the early 1980s, the U.S. economy has experienced a growing wage differential: high-skilled workers have claimed an increasing share of available income, while low-skilled workers have seen an absolute decline in real wages. How and why this disparity has arisen is a matter of ongoing...
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Differences and changes in wage structures
Freeman, Richard B. (contributor); Freeman, Richard B. (ed.) - 1995
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The structure of wages : an international comparison
Lazear, Edward P. (ed.); Shaw, Kathryn (contributor) - 2008
Wage structure, raises, and mobility : an introduction to international comparisons of the structure of wages within and across firms / Edward P. Lazear and Kathryn L. Shaw -- Adjusting imperfect data : overview and case studies / Lars Vilhuber -- Wage structure and labor mobility in the United...
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Aging in the United States and Japan : economic trends; [papers presented at a conference in Tokyo ...]
Noguchi, Yukio (ed.); Wise, David A. (contributor) - 1994
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Labor markets and firm benefit policies in Japan and the United States
Ogura, Seiritsu (ed.); Tachibanaki, Toshiaki (contributor);  … - 2003
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Global Production Sharing and Rising Inequality : A Survey of Trade and Wages
Feenstra, Robert - 2001
We argue that trade in intermediate inputs, or 'global production sharing,' is a potentially important explanation for the increase in the wage gap between skilled and unskilled workers in the U.S. and elsewhere. Using a simple model of heterogeneous activities within an industry, we show that...
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Specialization : Pro- and Anti-globalizing, 1990-2002
Anderson, James E. - 2010
Specialization alters the incidence of manufacturing trade costs to buyers and sellers, with pro-and anti-globalizing effects on 76 countries from 1990-2002. The structural gravity model yields measures of Constructed Home Bias (the ratio of predicted local trade to predicted frictionless local...
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Changing Economic Geography and Vertical Linkages in Japan
Tomiura, Eiichi - 2003
In Japan, the manufacturing has become geographically dispersed in the 1990s, when the import share has risen after the …
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Skill Compression, Wage Differentials and Employment : Germany vs. the US
Freeman, Richard B. - 2000
. It suggests that the pay and employment experience of low skilled Americans is a poor counterfactual for assessing how …
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The Role of Wage and Skill Differences in US-German Employment Differences
Freeman, Richard B. - 2000
International Adult Literacy Survey we find that employment of skilled to unskilled labour is unrelated to differences in skill … premium but that changes in relative employment are related to changes in relative wages raising the possibility of some … substitution behavior. Still, the differing dispersion of wages is not a major contributor to differences in employment rates. The …
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