trade economists and from labor economists: What has caused the relative wage of skilled labor compared to unskilled labor … in the United States to increase through the 1980s and 1990s? Prime candidates for causing this change have been "trade …

the rising differential is due to "trade" -shorthand for greater openness in global markets and/or greater participation …

trade can be interpreted under certain assumptions as indicating the nature of the factor price adjustments that can, in a … specified sense, be attributed to that trade. This paper elaborates on the sense in which this result says anything about the … factor market effects of trade. It also examines several of the assumptions that were used by Deardorff and Staiger to …

fragmentation into simple theoretical models of international trade, the paper finds the effects of fragmentation on national … welfare, on patterns of specialization and trade, and on factor prices. Models examined include the Ricardian Model and the … terms of trade against it. 3. Even in a country that gains from fragmentation, it is possible (but not necessary) that some …

should respond to this, including increased use and improvement of programs of trade adjustment assistance. …