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Low Skills Low Wages: Eric Maskin on Inequality

Low Skills Low Wages: Eric Maskin on Inequality

IMF Podcasts · IMF Podcasts

March 16, 201612m 24s

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Show Notes

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.

Contributors:

Eric Maskin, Professor at Harvard University, and 2007 Nobel Laureate.