Politicians and think-tankers knew thirty years ago that globalization would be good for the college-educated and wealthy and bad for everyone else. A declassified OECD report from 1994 described consequences for developed nations in the early days of expanded global trade: About one-half of the male groups suffered a decline in real wages over the period. These groups included those who had not graduated from college and young males. Female workers were less adversely affected. They also found that the average wage of college graduates relative to high-school graduates rose by 20% during the decade.