Trade, Investment, Migration and Labour Market Adjustment

Globalization and the growing integration of national markets have had profound effects on the operation of markets, not least labour markets. In this book, a range of leading commentators on globalization and labour markets present original contribution on the interaction between these two areas. This book assesses the impact of globalization on trade, cross-border investment and migration from both a theoretical and econometric standpoint and discusses the possible applications of this analysis for both industrialized and developing countries.

The International Economic Association Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors List of Abbreviations and Acronyms Introduction: D.Greenaway, R.Upward & K.Wakelin Human Capital, Unemployment and Relative Wages in a Gobal Economy; D.R.Davis & T.A.Reeve Competition, Trade and Wages; J.P.Neary Fragmentation, Globalization and Labour Markets; M.Burda & B.Dluhosch Globalization, Employment, and Income: Analyzing the Adjustment Process; C.Davidson & S.Matusz Sectoral Adjustment and Labour Market Flows; D.Greenaway, R.Upward & P.Wright What Drove Relative Wages in France? Structural Decomposition Analysis in a General Equilibrium Framework, 1970-1992; S.Jean & O.Bontout International Trade and Labour Market Adjustment in Developing Countries; A.Fosu Internationalization of Japanese Manufacturing Firms and the Relative Demand for Skilled Labour; K.Head & J.Ries Are the Regional Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment in the UK?; S.Girma & K.Wakelin Technology, Trade, Multinationals and Aggregate Employment: Evidence from UK Panel Date; K.Taylor & N.Driffield The Employment and Wage Effects of Immigration: Trade and Labour Economics Perspectives; N.Gaston & D.Nelson Index of Names Subject Index

OLIVIER BONTOUT Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Paris, France MICHAEL BURDA Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany CARL DAVIDSON Michigan State University, USA DONALD R. DAVIS Columbia University and National Bureau for Economic Research, USA BARBARA DLUHOSCH University of Munich, Germany NIGEL DRIFFIELD University of Birmingham, UK AUGUSTIN FOSU African Economics Research Consortium, Nairobi, Kenya NOEL GASTON Bond University, Australia SOURAFEL GIRMA University of Nottingham, UK KEITH HEAD University of British Columbia, Canada SÉBASTIEN JEAN Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development OECD STEVE MATUSZ Michigan State University, USA J.PETER NEARY University College Dublin, Ireland DOUGLAS NELSON Tulane University, USA TREVOR A. REEVE Board of Governors, Federal Reserve Bank, USA JOHN RIES University of British Columbia, Canada KARL TAYLOR Cardiff Business School, UK PETER WRIGHT University of Nottingham, UK