1. Discovering Data In this problem you will use the World Development Indicators (WDI) database from the...

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1. Discovering Data In this problem you will use the World Development Indicators (WDI) database from the World Bank to compute the comparative advantage of two countries in the major sectors of gross domestic product (GDP):

agriculture, industry (which includes manufacturing, mining, construction, electricity, and gas), and services. Go to the WDI website at http://wdi.worldbank.org, and choose “Online tables,” where you will be using the sections on “People” and on the “Economy.”

a. In the “People” section, start with the table “Labor force structure.” Choose two countries that you would like to compare, and for a recent year write down their total labor force (in millions) and the percentage of the labor force that is female. Then calculate the number of the labor force (in millions)

who are male and the number who are female.

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International Economics

ISBN: 9781429278423

4th Edition

Authors: Robert C. Feenstra; Alan M. Taylor

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