Trade with low-income countries and the relative wages and employment opportunities of the unskilled: An exploratory analysis for west Germany and the UK

Global Trade and European Workers

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 69-95

  Lücke, Matthias ^a  

^a KIEL INSTITUTE FOR THE WORLD ECONOMY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 85006814735     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-27035-4     Document Type: Chapter

References (25)

1. Aiginger, K., Winter-Ebmer, R. and Zweimuller, J. (1996) 'Eastern European trade and the Austrian labour market', Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, 123, 476-500.
2. Baldwin, R. and Cain, G. (1997) 'Trade and US relative wages: preliminary results', Working Paper, 5934, NBER.
3. Ballance, R., Forstner, H. and Murray, T. (1987) 'Consistency tests of alternative measures of comparative advantage', Review of Economics and Statistics, 69, 157-6l.
4. Berman, E., Machin, S. and Bound, J. (1996) 'Implications of skill-biased technological change: international evidence', Department of Economics, Boston University, mimeo.
5. Burtless, G. (1995) 'International trade and the rise in earnings inequality', Journal of Economic Literature, 33, 800-816.
6. Cortes, O. and Jean, S. (1996) 'Pays émergents, emploi déficient?', Document de Travail 96-05, CEPII.
7. Feenstra, R. and Hanson, G. (1996) 'The exact measurement of productivity, outsourcing and its impact on wages: estimates for the US, 1972-1990', Department of Economics, University of California, Davis!Department of Economics, University of Texas, Austin, mimeo.
8. Freeman, R. (1995) 'Are your wages set in Beijing?', Journal of Economic Perspectives, 9, 15-23.
9. Jones, R. (1965) 'The structure of simple general equilibrium models', Journal of Political Economy, 73, 557-72.
10. Jones, R. (1970) 'The role of technology in the theory of international trade', in Vernon, R. (ed.), The Technology Factor in International Trade, New York: Columbia University Press, 73-94.
11. Klodt, H. and Maurer, R. (1995) 'Determinants of the capacity to innovate: is Germany losing its competitiveness in high-tech industries?' in Siebert, H. (ed.), Locational Competition in the World Economy, TÜbingen: Mohr, 137-62.
12. Lawrence, R. and Slaughter, M. (1993) 'International trade and American wages in the 1980s: giant sucking sound or small hiccup?', Brookings Papers on Economic Activity: Microeconomics, 2, 161-226.
13. Leamer, E. (1993) 'Wage effects of a US-Mexican free trade agreement', in Garber, P. (ed.), The Mexico-US Free Trade Agreement, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 57-125.
14. Leamer, E. (1994) 'Trade, wages and revolving door ideas', Working Paper, 4716, NBER.
15. Leamer, E. (1995) 'The Heckscher-Ohlin model in theory and practice', Princeton Studies in International Finance, 77.
16. Leamer, E. (1996) 'In search of Stolper-Samuelson Effects on US Wages', Working Paper, 5427, NBER.
17. Lücke, M.. (1992) Technischer Fortschritt und die Arbeitsteilung zwischen Industrie- und Entwicklungsländern, Kieler Studien, 247, Tübingen Mohr.
18. Oscarsson, E. (1996) 'Trade and relative wages in Sweden 1968-91', Department of Economics, Stockholm University, mimeo.
19. Paqué, K. (1994) 'Structural unemployment and real wage rigidity in Germany', HabilitationsschriJt, Kiel University.
20. Richardson, J.D. (1995) 'Income inequality and trade: how to think, what to conclude', Journal of Economic Perspectives, 9, 33-56.
21. Sachs, J. and Shatz, H. (1996) 'US trade with developing countries and wage inequality', American Economic Review, 86, 234-9.
22. Streeck, W. (1997) 'German capitalism: does it exist? Can it survive?', in Crouch, C. and Streeck, W. (eds), Political Economy and Modem Capitalism: Mapping Convergence and Diversity London: Sage.
23. Trefier, D. (1995) 'The case of the missing trade and other mysteries', American Economic Review, 85, 1029-46.
24. Wood, A.. (1994) North-South Trade, Employment and Inequality, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
25. Wood, A. (1995) 'How trade hurt unskilled workers', Joumal of Economic Perspectives, 9, 57-80.