Globalization has impacted the United States in many different ways. It has opened many doors in many different markets around the world. The selling and the trading of American goods and products around the world, has allowed us to stay close to the top of the economic ladder. One
of the ways that it hurts the United States is, the cost to American labor workers, which is a effect of globalization and international trading between developing countries and the United States, with China topping the list of these countries, it has caused reduced wages for the American labor workers. This happens when Labor based companies, and industries uproot, and move their companies and industries to developing countries, where they can have the work done for half the cost of paying an American worker, and therefore the demand for labor in the United States have greatly decreased. This in turns lowers the wages for the non college educated workers. However it increases the need for professionals in the United States, which just widens the gap between the rich and the poor.(Globalisms 2014)
‘The Heckscher-Ohlin model is used to evaluate international trade, specifically trade equilibriums between counties that may have different features. The model emphasizes how countries with comparative advantages should export goods that require factors of production that they have in abundance, while importing goods that it cannot produce as efficiently.’ (Investopedia 2015)
Specialization in International Trade refers to countries that specialize in certain products which they trade for other goods, instead of producing, their consumption goods. These countries will produce a surplus of the product that they specialize and they then trade it for a surplus goods of another country. Depending on comparative advantages is how the traders decide on whether they should export or import goods. (Boundless 2015)