Low Skills Low Wages: Eric Maskin on Inequality
Rice Harvest near Timbuktu, Mali. Globalization has left unskilled workers behind (photo: Atlantide Phototravel/Corbis)
In This Episode
While it was widely expected that globalization would reduce inequality, income disparities between skilled and unskilled workers has only increased in recent years. In this podcast we ask Nobel Laureate Eric Maskin, why the global markets haven’t offered better economic opportunities for the world’s poorest.
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Bruce Edwards
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