has become more integrated into the world economy prices of final goods have changed, the capital stock has more than …

We develop an empirical framework to assess the importance of trade and technical change on the wages of production and … outsourcing and expenditures on high-technology equipment can explain a substantial amount of the increase in the wages of …

same, not oppo- site effect on wages at both skill levels; a rise in the foreign share in world innovation or US patents … decreases US wages; an increase in the US share in world innovation or US patents raises US wages, especially for the less … skilled; and the stock of world innovation and US patents decreases real wages especially for the less skilled. Turning to the …

-related variables on wages of skilled and unskilled labor between 1982 and 1996 in the United States. The results indicate that trade … widening wage gap. Also, changes in total factor productivity had a small effect on relative wages. The major factor behind the … presents estimates of the effect of trade on wages by calculating what wage rates would be under autarky. The results show that …

This paper investigates short and long-run effects of trade liberalization on employment and wages. Employment and wage … causality is unidirectional. Wages strongly causes employment but employment does not cause wages. There is significant …