| Description |
xv, 327 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Stanley W. Black -- Globalization and Productivity in the United States and Germany / Catherine L. Mann -- European Labor Markets: Sectoral Versus Spatial Shocks / Anne-Marie Gulde and Holger C. Wolf -- The Changing Skill Structure of Employment in German Manufacturing: A Peek inside the Industry Black Box / John T. Addison and Joachim Wagner -- Relative Earnings and the Demand for Unskilled Labor in West German Manufacturing / Viktor Steiner and Kersten Wagner -- Labor Mobility, Labor Standards, and Trade Policy: The Case of the German Entsendegesetz / Nadine Letner and Hans-Jurgen Vosgerau -- Globalization and the "German Model": Can it Survive? / Carsten Hefeker -- Financing Social Security in Germany: Proposals for Changing its Structure and Some Possible Effects / Winfried Schmahl -- Labor Demand, Unemployment, and the Cost of Social Insurance Schemes in Germany / Regina T. Riphahn and Thomas Bauer |
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Issues of Environmental and Labor Standards in the Global Trading System / Drusilla K. Brown, Alan V. Deardorff and Robert M. Stern -- The Political Economy of International Labor Standards / Stephen S. Golub |
| Summary |
Globalization, Technological Change, and Labor Markets is an edited collection of papers drawn from the conference held at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies in June 1997. This conference brought German and American perspectives to bear on the complex issues of global competition, technological change, and labor markets in the welfare state |
| Notes |
Includes papers presented at a conference |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Employees -- Effect of technological innovations on -- Germany -- Congresses.
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Employees -- Effect of technological innovations on -- United States -- Congresses.
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Foreign trade and employment -- Germany -- Congresses.
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Foreign trade and employment -- United States -- Congresses.
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Globalization -- Congresses.
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Labor market -- Germany -- Congresses.
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Labor market -- United States -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Black, Stanley W.
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| LC no. |
98031087 |
| ISBN |
0792383184 |
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