• DOI:10.3386/W5424
Corpus ID: 152764851

Globalization, Outsourcing, and Wage Inequality

@inproceedings{Feenstra1996GlobalizationOA,
  title={Globalization, Outsourcing, and Wage Inequality},
  author={R. Feenstra and G. Hanson},
  year={1996}
}

R. Feenstra, G. Hanson

Published 1996

Economics

There is considerable debate over whether international trade has contributed to the declining economic fortunes of less skilled workers. One issue that has become lost in the current discussion is how firms respond to import competition and how these responses, in turn, are transmitted to the labor market. In previous work, we have argued that outsourcing, by which we mean the import of intermediate inputs by domestic firms, has contributed to an increase in the relative demand for skilled… CONTINUE READING

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