| Description |
ix, 130 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: 1. Introauction -- -- 2. Globalization: Characteristics, issues and concerns -- What is globalization? -- Globalization: An empirical sketch -- Globalization: Then and now -- Globalization: Issues and concerns -- Appendix 2.1 List of countries -- -- 3. Trade and global income inequality -- Introduction -- Global income inequality, 1981-97 -- The preliminaries -- Inter-country inequality, 1981-97 International inequality, 1981-97 -- Trade liberalization and global income inequality -- Conclusions -- Appendix 3.1 List of countries -- Appendix 3.2 Percentage distribution of population by the inequality -- trend in countries of residence -- -- 4. Trade, jobs and wages -- Introduction -- What does economic theory tell us? -- The basic analytical framework -- A necessary dose of realism -- The empirical evidence -- -- -- -- -- Trade and the pattern of specialization -- Employment and wages in industrialized countries -- Employment and wages in developing countries -- A summing up -- Appendix 4.1 Classification of manufacturing industries -- Appendix 4.2 Ratio of manufacturing employment to total civilian -- employment, average annual growth rate (%), various years -- Appendix 4.3 Trade performance, selected ME countries, various years -- -- 5. Trade and international migration -- Introduction -- Trade and international migration: Insights from economic theory -- International migration in the 1990s: The evidence -- The trends -- The phenomenon of brain drain -- International migration, then and now -- Conclusions -- Appendix 5.1 Cumulative effects of emigration on population -- and labour force in European countries, 1870-1910 -- -- 6. Trade and labour standards -- Introduction -- Trade and labour standards: Theory and evidence -- Some preliminaries -- An analytical perspective -- "Unfair trade" and "social dumping" -- "Race to the bottom" -- Improving labour standards in a developing economy -- Concluding remarks -- -- 7. Conclusions References -- -- Index |
| Summary |
"Presenting results of new research, the author shows that, contrary to popular perceptions, global income inequality is actually declining, South-North migration is falling, and job opportunities and wages are rising in a significant number of developing countries. Moreover, the author finds no evidence of falling labour standards in integrating economics, nor that globalization can be blamed for the labour market disadvantages of low-skilled labour in industrialized countries." "While showing many of the public concerns about globalization to be unfounded, the analysis exposes other serious problems that until now have received scant attention, such as increasing marginalization of the poorest countries heavily dependent on exports of primary commodities, a high and growing level of brain drain from poor to rich countries, the potentially high costs for developing countries of pursuing integration as an objective in itself, and the failure of globalization to stimulate global economic growth." "This book points to difficult challenges that the international community must meet if the potential benefits of globalization are to be realized and all nations and people are to share in them."--BOOK JACKET |
| Analysis |
Globalisation |
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Labour market |
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Income distribution |
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Manufacturing |
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Developing countries |
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Developed countries |
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Trade |
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Migration |
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International comparisons |
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Statistics |
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Overseas item |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Wages.
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Globalization -- Economic aspects.
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Employment (Economic theory)
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Wages -- Developing countries.
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Labor mobility -- Developing countries.
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Globalization -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries.
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Labor supply -- Developing countries.
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Industries -- Developing countries.
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| SUBJECT |
Developed countries http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001000124 -- Foreign economic relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00005782 -- Developing countries.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85037341
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Developing countries -- Foreign economic relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114835 -- Developed countries.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001000124
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Developed countries http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001000124 -- International economic relations -- Developing countries
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Developing countries http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85037341 -- International economic relations -- Developed countries
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| Author |
International Labour Organisation.
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| LC no. |
2004358571 |
| ISBN |
9221127176 |
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