Consider a world of two countries, Home and the rest of the world ROW, only one factor of production labor, and two goods X and Y. The marginal productivities of a worker in the productions of X and Y in ROW are lower than the corresponding productivities of a worker in Home. Compared to a regime of autarky

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Consider a world of two countries, Home and the rest of the world ROW, only one factor of production labor, and two goods X and Y.   The marginal productivities of a worker in the productions of X and Y in ROW are lower than the corresponding productivities of a worker in Home. Compared to a regime of autarky

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Free trade  will raise the real wage of a worker in Home and in ROW but the real wage in home remains higher than that in ROW

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Free trade  will raise the real wage of a worker in Home and in ROW by an equal amount

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Free trade  will lower the real wage of a worker in Home and in ROW

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Free trade  will equalize the real wage of a worker in Home and in ROW

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Free trade  will raise the real wage of a worker in Home and lower it in ROW

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