Trade is not wholly responsible for rising wage inequality, he believes, but nor is it irrelevant.
But Mr Cline points out that examining net rises in wage inequality alone is misleading.
All of which, you might think, would increase the impact of trade on wage inequality.
ECONOMIST: The elusive link between trade and wage inequality
The same is true of Labour's repeated charges of growing wage inequality and job insecurity.
But even with that increase, trade is still far from being the main cause of wage inequality.
ECONOMIST: The elusive link between trade and wage inequality
We would see sharply rising wage inequality but not stagnant wages on average.
Some research, he says, suggests that 20-25% of the rising wage inequality of the past two decades comes from trade and immigration.
This new strand of research is linked to recent work on the effects of trade on wages, and especially on wage inequality.
The Administration has looked at issues from workplace flexibility to wage inequality, and expanded small business lending to women businesses owners though the Small Business Administration.
It also rebuffs the critics of globalisation, who argue that trade kills jobs, suppresses American wages and is the sole or primary cause of higher wage inequality.
The threat of outsourcing puts downward pressure on pay, though most American studies suggest that trade accounts for only a small part of the increase in wage inequality.
The Administration has looked at issues from workplace flexibility to wage inequality, and taken action by passing the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and supporting the passage of the Paycheck Fairness Act.
Weaker trade unions and relative falls in the minimum wage will have increased wage inequality, while other trends, particularly the huge increase in the supply of skilled workers, will have reduced it.
He is as well liked by the City types who roar at his genuine wit as by the social workers of Camden, who expect him to wage war on inequality.
An investor class may become better at capturing the returns to production, slowing wage growth and raising inequality.
Governments may need to tackle sluggish wage growth and increased inequality more directly.
But the bottom line is that a larger number of people are willing to pay a considerably larger price to watch college football than they are to listen to me discuss wage disparities and income inequality in my Principles of Microeconomics class.
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Who among us is willing to tolerate high unemployment, anemic wage growth, growing income inequality, and to boot, a debt burden that is on track to equal the total output of the U.S. economy by the end of this decade?
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The book ranges widely: from a quasi-Malthusian discussion of the impact of limited resources to the more familiar territory of how wage competition from emerging economies influences income inequality.
"With an increase of the millionaire's tax and a significant increase in the minimum wage, this budget takes strong steps to address income inequality, " said Michael Kink of the Strong Economy for All coalition of progressive groups.
If we raise the federal minimum wage and demand the 1% pay their fair share to reduce income inequality, we will boost our economy, help small business grow and create jobs.
Some of this inequality was addressed by the Labour governments through tax credits and the minimum wage, but the share of income going to the top 1% continued to rise inexorably, driven by the financial sector.
Jobs, collective bargaining, a minimum wage on which people can live, social protection and essential services are the core elements of reducing inequality.
Most single mothers operate under extreme social and economic impediments -- triple the poverty rate of the rest of the population, the highest rate of low-wage employment, the worst wage gap, the lowest net worth, the highest risk of bankruptcy -- that add up to a massive inequality in American society.
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