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Trade with the NICs and Wage Inequality: Evidence from the UK and Germany

In: Global Trade and European Workers

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  • Bob Anderton
  • Paul Brenton

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Most research to date into the causes of the substantial increase in wage inequality in the UK concludes that increased competition from low-wage Newly-Industrialising Countries (NICs) has had very little impact on either the employment or relative wages of unskilled workers.1 But everyday experience suggests the reverse.2

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  • Bob Anderton & Paul Brenton, 1999. "Trade with the NICs and Wage Inequality: Evidence from the UK and Germany," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Paul Brenton & Jacques Pelkmans (ed.), Global Trade and European Workers, chapter 3, pages 39-68, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-27035-4_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-27035-4_3
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    1. Rosario Crinò, 2009. "Offshoring, Multinationals And Labour Market: A Review Of The Empirical Literature," Journal of Economic Surveys, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 23(2), pages 197-249, April.
    2. Kaveri Deb & William R. Hauk, 2020. "The Impact of Chinese Imports on Indian Wage Inequality," The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Springer;The Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE), vol. 63(2), pages 267-290, June.
    3. Carsten Ochsen, 2006. "Zukunft der Arbeit und Arbeit der Zukunft in Deutschland," Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, Verein für Socialpolitik, vol. 7(2), pages 173-193, May.

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