The strikingly different labor market performance of major industrial countries suggests that neither globalization nor skill-biased technological change necessarily result in rising unemployment or declining wages of low-skilled workers. Rather, globalization and technological change cause...

This paper discusses the measurement of production and employment effects of trade policy, and more broadly the effects of economic integration and globalization. First, it provides a broad-brush overview of the ex-post literature linking trade to performance, such as measures of worker...

In this paper we analyse the labor market and its relationship with globalization in two groups of countries similar in their GDP per capita levels at the beginning of the 1980s but otherwise significantly different in their economic and social structures. On the one hand we look at Argentina,...

Die Studie geht auf drei akademische Literaturzweige ein, die jeweils darstellen, dass Industrieländer bei Freihandel durch den Wettbewerb der Schwellenländer Wohlfahrtsverluste erleiden können. Es handelt sich dabei erstens um die Kombination eines Heckscher/Ohlin-Modells mit einem starren...

Abstract Entgegen den Verheißungen der Globalisierungstheorie ist es in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten im Weltmaßstab nicht zu einer Angleichung der Beschäftigungs- und Lebensverhältnisse gekommen. Soziale Ungleichheit ist zwischen und innerhalb der Nationalstaaten gewachsen. Lediglich die...

Important labour market consequences of globalization may arise via product market integration which affects the room for wage negotiations and generates job creation and destruction through structural changes. We find in a Ricardian trade model that aggregate increases in wages and employment...