Neil Foster‐McGregor
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Neil Foster-McGregor is a researcher specializing in international economics, labor markets, and technological change, with a particular focus on understanding how globalization and automation reshape wage inequality across skill levels. His work sits at the intersection of trade theory and labor economics, examining how forces such as global value chain participation, robotics, and capital-embodied technological change differentially affect high-, medium-, and low-skilled workers. Among his notable contributions, Foster-McGregor has investigated the asymmetric impacts of tangible and intangible assets on relative wages, drawing on skill-biased technical change and labor market polarization frameworks to explain the diverging fortunes of workers in an increasingly automated global economy. His 2020 study on automation and globalization systematically identifies winners and losers from technological and trade-driven transformations, offering empirical grounding for policy debates around inequality and labor market regulation. His 2024 follow-up further unpacks how labor market institutions mediate these dynamics. While his citation counts are still building — reflecting the recency of much of his published output — his research addresses some of the most pressing questions in contemporary economic policy, making his work increasingly relevant to scholars, policymakers, and students grappling with the future of work and global inequality.
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