Globalisation and Labour Market Adjustment

227 Pages·2008·0.89 MB·English

by  David Greenaway

Globalisation and Labour Market Adjustment
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Volume4:SynthesisandReview
Globalisation and Labour
Market Adjustment
Edited by
David Greenaway
LeverhulmeCentreforResearchonGlobalisationandEconomicPolicy,
UniversityofNottingham
Richard Upward
LeverhulmeCentreforResearchonGlobalisationandEconomicPolicy,
UniversityofNottingham
Peter Wright
LeverhulmeCentreforResearchonGlobalisationandEconomicPolicy,
UniversityofNottingham
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Contents
ListofTables vii
ListofFigures viii
Acknowledgements ix
NotesonContributors x
1 IntroductionandOverview 1
DavidGreenaway,RichardUpwardandPeterWright
2 GlobalisationandTurnover 6
CarlDavidsonandStevenJ.Matusz
3 TheWageandUnemploymentImpactsof
TradeAdjustment 31
PauloBastosandJoanaSilva
4 TradeandRisingWageInequality:WhatCan
WeLearnfromaDecadeofComputableGeneral
EquilibriumAnalysis? 54
NivenWinchester
5 UnemploymentinModelsofInternationalTrade 73
UdoKreickemeier
6 HumanCapitalandAdjustmenttoTrade 97
RodFalvey,DavidGreenawayandJoanaSilva
7 TradeAdjustmentandOccupationalMobility 115
RichardUpwardandPeterWright
8 TheLabourMarketImplicationsofFragmentation
andTradeUnderImperfectCompetition 133
BarbaraDluhosch
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9 TheLabourMarketImpactofInternationalOutsourcing 152
IngoGeishecker,HolgerGörgandSaraMaioli
10 ImmigrationandLabourMarketAdjustment 174
AlexanderHijzenandDouglasNelson
Index 207
List of Tables
4.1 Trade-wageCGEstudies 56
4.2 Percentagechangesintheskilled–unskilledrelative
wage,1980–2001 68
7.1 WorkerreallocationintheUK,1991–2004(proportion) 116
7.2 Impactof(cid:1)N /N onmovementprobabilities 127
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7.3 Conditionalwageeffectsofoccupationalmovement 129
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List of Figures
5.1 Theequilibriumwithandwithoutminimumwages 76
5.2 Theequilibriumwithefficiencywages 78
5.3 Equilibriuminsectorj 82
5.4 Theone-countryequilibrium 84
5.5 Theeffortfunctionforunskilledlabour 87
5.6 Thetwo-countryequilibriumwithminimumwages 89
5.7 Thetwo-countryequilibriumwithfairwages 90
7.1 Thesectoralstructureoftheeconomy 119
7.2 Workermovementbetweenjobsandrecruitingpools 121
8.1 Shareofintra-industrytradeasafunctionofthe
differentialinfactorproportions(ω)andcosteffectiveness
offragmentation(γ) 140
8.2 Iso-skill-ratiocurveswithfragmentationaugmentedtrade
asafunctionofαandγ 143
8.3 Gainsfromtradeasafunctionoftheelasticityof
substitutionρ,costeffectivenessoffragmentationγ and
factorproportionsω 146
9.1 InternationaloutsourcinginUKmanufacturing 157
9.2 InternationaloutsourcinginGermanmanufacturing 158
9.3 NarrowoutsourcinginUKmanufacturingbyregion 159
9.4 NarrowoutsourcinginGermanmanufacturingbyregion 160
10.1 BasicPEmodel 175
10.2 Changesinotherfactors 177
10.3 Technologicalchange 177
10.4 Two-sectorGEmodel 179
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Acknowledgements
The work in this volume was completed at the Leverhulme Centre
for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy at the University
of Nottingham and supported by funding from the Leverhulme Trust
under Programme Grant F114/BF. The editors and authors gratefully
acknowledgethatfinancialsupport.
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