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Trade and wages: choosing among alternative explanations

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Jagdish Bhagwati
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North-South trade competition cannot be an explanation for the adverse trend for U.S. unskilled wages. If wage competition in these industries from abroad pushed down wages, then prices of these goods should also have gone down, and they have not. Also VERs and anti-dumping measures have protected exactly the wage earners supposedly threatened.

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Article provided by Federal Reserve Bank of New York in its journal Economic Policy Review.

Volume (Year): (1995)
Issue (Month): Jan ()
Pages: 42-47
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Keywords: International trade ; Labor turnover ; Labor unions ; Wages;

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