We depart from the trade and wages literature and its emphasis on North-South trade, examining North-North by … developing the basic linkages between trade-based integration and relative wages in an Ethier-type division of labor model. Using … this model we identify a formal relationship between international trade, productivity, and wages. We then examine the …

start with a graphic tour through the mechanics ofgeneral equilibrium theory on trade and wages. This provides a set of …

deterioration in the relative wages of unskilled workers.This involves a model of North-Northintegration through either increased …

We investigate the major choice of college graduates where we make choice dependent on expected initial wages and … expected real wage growth and expected initial wages across majors. Furthermore, the differences in these expectations appear …