Titled Globalisation and Labour Market Adjustment

by Greenaway, David; Upward, Richard; Wright, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780230004931
• ISBN10: 0230004938
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-05-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book explores theoretical developments of trade models, examining labour mobility, unemployment and training in models of international trade, as well as migration and labour markets, the wage and unemployment impacts of adjustment, adjustment and occupational mobility, exchange rate fluctuations and trade exposure, fragmentation and the labour market.

Author Biography

DAVID GREENAWAY is Professor and Pro Vice Chancellor of the Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy, School of Economics, University of Nottingham, UK. He specialises in international trade and firm level adjustment to globalisation.

RICHARD UPWARD is Associate Professor in Economics at the Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy, School of Economics, University of Nottingham, UK. He specialises in labour economics and applied econometrics.

PETER WRIGHT is Associate Professor and Reader at the Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy, School of Economics, University of Nottingham, UK. He specialises in labour economics and applied econometrics.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	p. vii
List of Figures	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Notes on Contributors	p. x
Introduction and Overview	p. 1
Globalisation and Turnover	p. 6
The Wage and Unemployment Impacts of Trade Adjustment	p. 31
Trade and Rising Wage Inequality: What Can We Learn from a Decade of Computable General Equilibrium Analysis?	p. 54
Unemployment in Models of International Trade	p. 73
Human Capital and Adjustment to Trade	p. 97
Trade Adjustment and Occupational Mobility	p. 115
The Labour Market Implications of Fragmentation and Trade Under Imperfect Competition	p. 133
The Labour Market Impact of International Outsourcing	p. 152
Immigration and Labour Market Adjustment	p. 174
Index	p. 207
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