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9781405131698

Adjusting To Globalization

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    9781405131698

  • ISBN10:

    1405131691

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-05-20
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

This volume investigates the ways in which firms and workers are adjusting to globalization. A collection of cutting-edge essays investigating the ways in which firms and workers are adjusting to globalization. Written by leading researchers in the field. Covers such issues as: outsourcing; the productivity effects of entry to export markets; job losses and wage insurance; and the protection of intellectual property. Presents original research on adjusting to globalization. Provides important insights into the microeconomics effects of globalization. Highlights key issues for policy makers.

Author Biography

David Greenaway is Professor of Economics and Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy at the University of Nottingham. His previous books include Surveys in International Trade (Blackwell Publishing, 1994), The Economics of Intra-Industry Trade (Blackwell Publishing, 1996), Globalization and Labour Markets (2001) and Trade, Investment, Migration and Labour Market Adjustment (2002).

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
vi
Editorial Note vii
David Greenaway
Trade-related Job Loss and Wage Insurance: a Synthetic Review
1(24)
Lori G. Kletzer
An Overlapping-generations Model of Escape Clause Protection
25(20)
Carl Davidson
Steven J. Matusz
Structural Change and the Labor-market Effects of Globalization
45(24)
Noel Gaston
Douglas Nelson
Aspects of International Fragmentation
69(24)
Wilhelm Kohler
Outsourcing, Foreign Ownership, and Productivity: Evidence from UK Establishment-level Data
93(16)
Sourafel Girma
Holger Gorg
Two Dimensions of Convergence: National and International Wage Adjustment Effects of Cross-border Outsourcing in Europe
109(11)
Peter Egger
Michael Pfaffermayr
``Export Experience'' under Borrowing Constraints
120(11)
Saqib Jafarey
Sajal Lahiri
Does Exporting Increase Productivity? A Microeconometric Analysis of Matched Firms
131(12)
Sourafel Girma
David Greenaway
Richard Kneller
Outsourcing under Imperfect Protection of Intellectual Property
143(18)
Amy Jocelyn Glass
Index 161

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