Trade, Investment, Migration and Labour Market Adjustment

OLIVIER BONTOUT Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Paris, France MICHAEL BURDA Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany CARL DAVIDSON Michigan State University, USA DONALD R. DAVIS Columbia University and National Bureau for Economic Research, USA BARBARA DLUHOSCH University of Munich, Germany NIGEL DRIFFIELD University of Birmingham, UK AUGUSTIN FOSU African Economics Research Consortium, Nairobi, Kenya NOEL GASTON Bond University, Australia SOURAFEL GIRMA University of Nottingham, UK KEITH HEAD University of British Columbia, Canada SAeBASTIEN JEAN Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development OECD STEVE MATUSZ Michigan State University, USA J.PETER NEARY University College Dublin, Ireland DOUGLAS NELSON Tulane University, USA TREVOR A. REEVE Board of Governors, Federal Reserve Bank, USA JOHN RIES University of British Columbia, Canada KARL TAYLOR Cardiff Business School, UK PETER WRIGHT University of Nottingham, UK

Globalization and the growing integration of national markets have had profound effects on the operation of markets, not least labour markets. In this book, a range of leading commentators on globalization and labour markets present original contribution on the interaction between these two areas.Globalization and the growing integration of national markets have had profound effects on the operation of markets, not least labour markets. In this book, a range of leading commentators on globalization and labour markets present original contribution on the interaction between these two areas. This book assesses the impact of globalization on trade, cross-border investment and migration from both a theoretical and econometric standpoint and discusses the possible applications of this analysis for both industrialized and developing countries.