Article
Non-Traded Goods, Technical Progress and Real Wages
Open Economies Review
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2008
Disciplines
Abstract
We use a general equilibrium model of trade to show that technical improvement may indeed cause a fall in the wages of unskilled workers. Under some modest conditions, the wages of skilled workers may go down too.
Citation Information
“Non-traded Goods, Technical Progress and Real Wages,” (with H. Beladi), Open Economies
Review 19, 2008: 507-515.