This paper analyses the relationship between openness to trade and wages at the industry level (15 manufacturing … intra and inter-industry trade as well as between trade from western and eastern Europe and we try to assess the relative … importance of foreign wages versus domestic productivity developments in an open environment. We find that trade is not an …

In the last decades, international trade has increased between industrialised countries and between high- and low …-wage countries. This important change has raised questions on how international trade affects the labour market. In this spirit, this … paper aims to investigate the impact of international trade on wage dispersion in a small open economy. It is one of the few …