Globalisation and Labour Market Adjustment
β Scribed by David Greenaway, Richard Upward, Peter Wright (eds.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 227
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction and Overview....Pages 1-5
Globalisation and Turnover....Pages 6-30
The Wage and Unemployment Impacts of Trade Adjustment....Pages 31-53
Trade and Rising Wage Inequality: What Can We Learn from a Decade of Computable General Equilibrium Analysis?....Pages 54-72
Unemployment in Models of International Trade....Pages 73-96
Human Capital and Adjustment to Trade....Pages 97-114
Trade Adjustment and Occupational Mobility....Pages 115-132
The Labour Market Implications of Fragmentation and Trade Under Imperfect Competition....Pages 133-151
The Labour Market Impact of International Outsourcing....Pages 152-173
Immigration and Labour Market Adjustment....Pages 174-206
Back Matter....Pages 207-215
β¦ Subjects
Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics; Labor Economics; International Economics
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