Openness and wage inequality in developing countries: The Latin American challenge to East Asian conventional wisdom

World Bank Economic Review

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 33-57

  Wood, Adrian ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SKILLED LABOUR; TRADE LIBERALISATION; WAGE DIFFERENTIALS;

ASIA, (EAST); LATIN AMERICA;

EID: 0030835029     PISSN: 02586770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/wber/11.1.33     Document Type: Article

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