This paper estimates short and long run income elasticities of demand for New Zealand exports to several Asian countries. Export demand is modelled as a function of spending power using cointegration analysis. The results ...

The trade and wages debate worldwide, over the last decade has focused attention on the possible relationships between trade liberalisation and the factor distribution of income. In Australia real wages in manufacturing ...

New Zealand embarked on major unilateral trade policy changes as part of the economic reform packages from 1984. Since that time there has been some evidence that unskilled wages have fallen relative to skilled workers ...