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Trade and wages : leveling wages down?

Title
Trade and wages : leveling wages down? / edited by Jagdish Bhagwati and Marvin H. Kosters.
Publication
Washington, D.C. : AEI Press, 1994.

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Additional Authors
  • Bhagwati, Jagdish N., 1934-
  • Kosters, Marvin H.
  • American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research.
Description
xiii, 107 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subjects
Note
  • Essays from a one-day workshop on the influence of trade on jobs and wages, American Enterprise Institute, September 10, 1993.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Preface / Jagdish Bhagwati and Marvin H. Kosters -- 1. An Overview of Changing Wage Patterns in the Labor Market / Marvin H. Kosters. Major Changes in Wage Patterns. Wages and Employment. The Increase in Wage Dispersion. International Comparisons of Wage Trends. Sources of Changes in Wage Patterns. Labor Supply. Government Policy and Wage-setting Institutions. Technology, Trade, and Labor Demand -- 2. Freer Trade and Wages of the Unskilled - Is Marx Striking Again? / Jagdish Bhagwati and Vivek H. Dehejia. Factor Price Equalization - A Theoretical Curiosum or Inescapable Destiny? Why FPE and SS Theorems Are Inadequate Guides to Reality. Kaleidoscopic Comparative Advantage - Footloose Industries and Labor Turnover. Trade and Rents. Aggregate Production Function - The Ultimate Threat? -- 3. Trade and Wage - What Are the Questions? / Alan V. Deardorff and Dalia S. Hakura. How Does Trade Affect Wages? Studies of Effects of Trade Volumes. Studies of Effects of Prices. Studies of Protection and Wages.
ISBN
  • 0844738581 (c)
  • 084473859X (pbk.)
LCCN
94013297
OCLC
  • 30075905
  • ocm30075905
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries