A stronger trade balance in the late 1990s would not have added to output growth or job creation, which were running at full throttle. Further increases in net export demand would have been met only by attracting workers away from the production of something else.
在20世纪90年代末，贸易平衡强化不会带来产出增长或就业创造——它们已经达到了马力全开的成都。净出口需求的进一步增加只能通过吸引从事其他部门生产的工人来满足。因此，从贸易中所得到的好处以哄抬真实工资的形式而非进一步增加就业数量的形式出现。