List of figures

List of tables

Preface

Foreword

Bernard S. M. Berendsen

Acknowledgments

List of contributors

PART ONE: OVERVIEW

1 Introduction and summary

Olga Memedovic

Arie Kuyvenhoven

Willem T. M. Molle

1 Introduction

2 Theoretical issues

3 Exporting goods or labour

4 Policy response

PART TWO: THEORETICAL ISSUES

2 Trade and wages: a malign relationship?

Jagdish N. Bhagwati

1 Introduction

2 Clarifications and caveats

3 Alternative theoretical approaches

4 Concluding thoughts

Discussion

Martin Wolf

Zhang Xiaoji

Adrian Wood

3 Looking South and East: labour market implications of migration in Europe and LDCs

Thomas Bauer

Klaus F. Zimmermann

1 Introduction

2 Some stylized facts

3 Theoretical framework

4 Calculating the gains from immigration for the destination country

5 Conclusions

Discussion

Andre Sapir

Ruth Klinov

4 Locational innovation in LDC investment and its implications for migration: foreign direct investment in and by LDCs

Sheila Page

1 Introduction

2 New sources and directions

3 Reasons for investing

4 Why do countries want FDI?

5 Do the traditional explanations still work?

6 Multinationals and trade

7 Differences among foreign investors

8 Prospects for FDI

Discussion

Sartaj Aziz

Marcel F. van Marion

PART THREE: EXPORTING GOODS OR LABOUR

5 Exporting goods or labour: experiences of East, South and South-East Asia

Florian A. Alburo

1 Introduction: explosion of labour exports

2 Goods exports or labour exports?

3 Trade and turning-points

4 Conclusion

Discussion

Alutwala D.V. de S. Indraratna

Morris Teubal

6 Trade and employment in Latin America

Patricio Meller

1 Introduction

2 Review of the employment-trade relationship

3 The pattern of Latin American trade

4 Estimation of the employment effects of Latin American trade in manufactures

5 Changes in employment in the Chilean and Mexican manufacturing sector

Discussion

Karsten Nimb Pedersen

Alfred Tovias

7 Exporting goods or labour: the experience of North and Sub-Saharan Africa

Festus O. Fajana

1 Introduction

2 North and Sub-Saharan Africa's experience with exporting goods to Europe

3 Migration of labour from North and Sub-Saharan Africa to Europe

4 Prospects and the way out

Discussion

Giuseppe Gesano

PART FOUR: POLICY RESPONSE

8 Labour in the global economy: challenges, adjustment and policy response in the EU

Gijsbert van Liemt

1 Introduction

2 The social dimension of globalization

3 The social dimension of the European integration

4 Conclusion

Discussion

Raymond Torres

9 Labour market integration and policy response in East and South-East Asia

Suthiphand Chirathivat

1 Overview

2 Broad conceptual background

3 Recent experiences of labour mobility in ESEA

4 Labour market integration in the context of regional economic integration

5 Further steps for regional policy

6 Conclusion

Discussion

Jose Antonio Ocampo Gaviria

Maria del Carmen Pont-Vieira

10 Technological progress, innovation and employment in Latin America: the 1990s

Jorge Katz

Jose Miguel Benavente

1 Introduction

2 `Old' and `new' theoretical questions

3 A non-orthodox account of the Latin American industrialization process

4 Industrial strategy and public policy in the 1990s

Discussion

Adel I. Gazarin

Ludovico Alcorta

Index