Does More International Trade Openness Worsen Inequality
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Does freer trade increase income inequality within countries, perhaps sufficiently to offset any benefits to the poor from higher overall per capita income? Figure 4 suggests that there is no simple association between changes in trade openness and changes in inequality. Certainly there are many well known cases of countries where inequality has risen as they became more integrated into the world economy. Wages of high school educated males in the U.S. fell 20 percent between the mid 1970s and mid 1990s.
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