Foreign competition, market power, and wage inequality

Quarterly Journal of Economics

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 1075-1110

  Borjas, George J ^a   Ramey, Valerie A ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT CHANGE; FOREIGN COMPETITION; MARKET STRUCTURE; RETURNS TO EDUCATION; WAGE DIFFERENCE;

USA;

EID: 0029531264     PISSN: 00335533     EISSN: 15314650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2946649     Document Type: Article

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