Microeconomics,, 16th Canadian Edition

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that is moving back to Canada from China.
b. The theory of the gains from trade says that a high-
productivity, high-wage country can gain from trading
with a low-wage, low-productivity country.
c. Technological change is rapidly reducing labour costs as a
proportion of total costs in many products; in many
industries that use high-tech production methods this
proportion is already well below 20 percent.

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