Globalization and American Wages

Publication Type:

Report

Authors:

L. Josh Bivens

Source:

Economic Policy Institute (2007)

URL:

http://www.epi.org/content.cfm/bp196

Abstract:

This briefing paper examines what conventional economics actually predicts about the effects of integrating the rich United States and poor global economies and provides rough empirical estimates of integration’s effect on American wages and inequality.