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 …

trade on U.S. wages. The standard model of general equilibrium presented shows that each effect tends to be opposite in sign … 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 …