Blue Collar Blues – Is Trade to Blame for Rising US Income Inequality?

Summary

Deconstructs the gap between real blue-collar wages and labor productivity growth and estimates how much of the gap is due to measurement issues and how much higher these wages might have been if the distribution of income been kept constant.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Lawrence, Robert Z. Lawrence
• Publisher: Peterson Institute for International Economics
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2008
• EAN: 9780881324143
• ISBN: 978-0-88132-414-3
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 228 mm x 6 mm
• Weight: 178 g
• Series: Policy Analyses in Internation; Policy Analyses in International Economics
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > International economy