We estimate the impact of international trade and of trade-induced technological change on the wage inequality in the OECD countries, by estimating a two-stage mandated-wage regression. From our estimation we find no evidence on the Stolper-Samuelson effect of trade with the developing and newly...

This paper examines the relative burden of monopoly, measured as the (static) loss of consumers' surplus for different household income levels. Australian Household Expenditure Survey data are used to generate demand elasticities for 14 commodity groups and to obtain estimates of the relative...