Understanding the links between increasing foreign competition and domestic employment and job loss -- Evidence from earlier studies -- Inside manufacturing : trends in international trade, employment, and job loss -- Modeling labor market responses to changes in trade and import competition --...

Using annual data for 18 OECD countries over the period 1980-2004, we investigate howlabour and financial factors interact to determine unemployment by estimating a dynamicpanel model using the system generalized method of moments (GMM). We show that theimpact of financial variables depends...