Does Globalization Lower Wages and Export Jobs? /

Increased globalization - the international integration of markets for goods, technology, labor, and capital - has coincided in the past 20 years with a shift in demand from less-skilled workers to those with more skills. Have imports from developing countries been responsible for the lowered wages...

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Autore principale: Slaughter, Matthew
Altri autori: Swagel, Phillip
Natura: Periodico
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1997.
Serie:Economic Issues; Economic Issues ; No. 1997/007
Accesso online:Full text available on IMF
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