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Trade and Wages
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Leveling Wages Down?
By Marvin H. Kosters, Jagdish Bhagwati
Posted: Saturday, January 1, 2000
Trade and Wages
Dimensions: 9.5'' x 6.25''
107 pages
AEI Press  (Washington)
Publication Date: January 1994
Paperback
ISBN: 0844739758
Hardcover
ISBN: 0844738581

This title is currently out of print, but online booksellers sometimes have used copies available. See links below.

A discussion of the perceived widening wage gap between skilled and unskilled workers that analyzes the implications of such a gap upon trade in the context of NAFTA. Woven into this presentation is the authors strong skepticism regarding the fear that freer trade has actually pushed down the wages of unskilled workers, or that it will do so in the future.

Marvin H. Kosters is a resident scholar at AEI.

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