The paper asks whether trade can help to achieve the employment targets of the Sustainable Development Goals. The focus is on Goal 8, which is to "promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all." The theoretical and empirical links...

Structural transformation and employment -- Conceptualizing the goal of full employment and the SDG framework -- Labour market outcomes and inclusive development -- Economic fluctuations and vulnerability of labour markets -- Has employment intensive growth become history? -- Globalization of...