Does Globalization Lower Wages and Export Jobs?
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Summary:
Increased globalization - the international integration of markets for goods, technology, labor, and capital - has coincided in the past 20 years with a shift in demand from less-skilled workers to those with more skills. Have imports from developing countries been responsible for the lowered wages of the unskilled, increased unemployment, and widened income inequality in the more advanced countries? This paper finds that a more important influence on labor markets during these years has been a technology-driven shift in labor demand.
Series:
Economic Issues No. 1997/007
Subject:
Imports Income inequality International trade Labor Labor markets National accounts Wages
English
Publication Date:
September 29, 1997
ISBN/ISSN:
9781557756794/1020-5098
Stock No:
EIIEA0111996
Pages:
15
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