9. Trade Flows and Wage Premiums: Does Who or What Matter?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. I. Shifts in Labor Demand
6. 1. And Now for Something Completely Different: An Alternative Model of Trade, Education, and Inequality 15
7. 2. Effort and Wages: A New Look at the Interindustry Wage Differentials 37
8. 3. Offshore Assembly from the United States: Production Characteristics of the 9802 Program 85
9. II. The Role of Product Prices
10. 4. What Are the Results of Product-Price Studies and What Can We Learn from Their Differences? 129
11. 5. International Trade and American Wages in General Equilibrium, 1967-1995 171
12. 6. Does a Kick in the Pants Get You Going or Does It Just Hurt? The Impact of International Competition on Technological Change in US. Manufacturing 197
13. III. Variation in Wages across States and Industries
14. 7. Understanding Increasing and Decreasing Wage Inequality 227
15. 8. Exchange Rates and Local Labor Markets 269
16. 9. Trade Flows and Wage Premiums: Does Who or What Matter? 309
17. 10. Trade and Job Loss in U.S. Manufacturing, 1979-1994 349
18. Contributors 397
19. Author Index 399
20. Subject Index 403