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With an abundance of low - priced ( ____________________ ) labor relative to the United States , it is no surprise that China , India and ____________________ developing countries specialize in the production of labor - intensive products . For similar reasons , the United States will specialize in the production of goods that are ____________________ - and physical - capital intensive because of the relative abundance of a highly - educated labor force and technically sophisticated ( ____________________ ) equipment in the United States .
This division of global production should yield higher global output of both types of goods than would be the ____________________ if each country attempted to produce both of these goods itself . For example , the United States would produce more expensive labor - intensive goods because of its more expensive labor and the developing countries ____________________ produce ____________________ expensive human and physical capital - intensive goods because of their relative scarcity of these inputs . This logic implies that the United States is unlikely to be a ____________________ global competitor in the production green technologies that are not relatively intensive in human and physical capital .
Nevertheless , during the early stages of the development of a new technology , the United States has a comparative advantage in the production of the products enabled by this innovation . However , once these technologies become well - understood and production processes are designed that ____________________ make ____________________ of less - skilled labor , production will migrate to countries with ____________________ expensive labor .