linkages in open economies. Labor-market imperfections arise by virtue of country-specific real minimum wages. Two principal … experiments are considered. First, we show that trade liberalization under minimum wages differs significantly from trade … workers at home and abroad. In an extension to our baseline model, we illustrate that offshoring production from the high …

with the theory, we find considerable evidence of higher wages and wage growth in large and/or foreign-owned firms. These … firms have higher wage growth and, with some exceptions, pay higher average wages, but not when compared to similarly large …

We link industry-level data on trade and offshoring with individual-level worker data from the Current Population … worker wages through the reallocation of workers away from higher wage manufacturing jobs into other sectors and other …

) income inequality. These include within-industry effects due to heterogeneous firms; effects of offshoring of tasks; effects …The 1990's dealt a blow to traditional Heckscher-Ohlin analysis of the relationship between trade and income inequality …, as it became clear that rising inequality in low- income countries and other features of the data were inconsistent with …

While neoclassical theory emphasizes the impact of trade on wage inequality between occupations and sectors, more … the estimated model provides a close approximation to the observed distribution of wages and employment. We use the …

determining wages are all very similar to what have been used in previous reduced-form analyses. We use U.S. data on the … allocation of workers to occupations and computer usage as well as changes in average wages across worker groups between 1984 and … measured without directly using data on changes in wages, jointly explain the majority of the rise in the skill premium and …