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The Impact of International Trade on Wages

The Impact of International Trade on Wages
Robert C. Feenstra, editor

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Robert C. Feenstra

Part I - Shifts in Labor Demand

1. And Now for Something Completely Different: An Alternative Model of Trade, Education and Inequality
Paul Krugman


Comment: James E. Rauch and Magnus Lofstrom


2. Effort and Wages: A New Look at the Inter-Industry Wage Differentials
Edward E. Leamer and Christopher F. Thornberg


Comment: Alan V. Deardorff


3. Offshore Assembly from the United States: Production Characteristics of the 9802 Program
Robert C. Feenstra, Gordon H. Hanson and Deborah L. Swenson


Comment: James A. Levinsohn


Part II - The Role of Product Prices

4. What Are the Results of Product-Price Studies and What Can We Learn From Their Differences?
Matthew J. Slaughter


Comment: Robert E. Baldwin


5. International Trade and American Wages in General Equilibrium, 1967-1995
James Harrigan


Comment: Jonathan Eaton


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
Robert Z Lawrence


Comment: Alan B. Krueger


Part III - Variation in Wages Across States and Industries

7. Understanding Increasing and Decreasing Wage Inequality
Andrew B. Bernard and J. Bradford Jensen


Comment: Lee G. Branstetter


8. Exchange Rates and Local Labor Markets
Linda Goldberg and Joseph Tracy


Comment: Andrew K. Rose


9. Trade Flows and Wage Premiums: Does Who or What Matter?
Mary E. Lovely and J. David Richardson


Comment: George J. Borjas


10. Trade and Job Loss in U.S. Manufacturing, 1979-94
Lori G. Kletzer


Comment: Lisa M. Lynch