Globalization and Inequality

✍ Scribed by Elhanan Helpman

Publisher: Harvard University Press
Year: 2018
Tongue: English
Leaves: 227
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Globalization is not the primary cause of rising inequality. That is the conclusion of this penetrating study by Elhanan Helpman, a leading expert on international trade. If we wish to curb inequality while protecting what is best about globalization, he shows, we must start with a clear view of how globalization does, and does not, shape our world.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. Historical Background
Part I: The Traditional Approach
Introduction
2. The Rise of the College Wage Premium
3. Early Studies
4. Trade versus Technology
5. Offshoring
Part III. Broadening The Canvas
Introduction
6. Matching Workers With Jobs
7. Regional Disparity
8. Firm Characteristics
9. Technology Choice
10. Residual Inequality
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index

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