We review the skill-biased technological change (SBTC) versus NorthSouth trade (NST) debate in order to explain widening wage inequality between skilled and unskilled workers. The traditional explanations based on exogenous SBTC and on the NorthSouth Heckscher Ohlin Samuelson approach, as well...

We analyse the influence of North-South openness on technological change and on inequalities between skilled and unskilled workers in the advanced countries (the ‘North'). A North-South model of endogenous growth based on technological knowledge is constructed and simulated according to 3...

This book explores the widening gap between the wage packets of skilled and unskilled workers that has become a pressing issue for all states in the globalized world economy. Comparing the experiences of more and less developed economies, chapters analyse the underlying causes and key social...