Number: RL33454
Title: Trade, Employment, and Wages: What Does the Evidence Show?
Authors: Marc Labonte, Government and Finance Division 
Abstract: This report uses regression analysis of quarterly national data from 1948 to 2005 (and a sub-sample from 1980 to 2005) to answer three questions. First, do higher imports systematically correspond to periods of high unemployment or low employment growth? Second, do higher trade deficits correspond to high unemployment or low employment growth? Third, do higher imports or trade deficits correspond to weak growth in average worker compensation?
Pages: 15
Date: June 5, 2006