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  title info:
    title: North-South trade, employment, and inequality
    sub title: changing fortunes in a skill-driven world
  name:
    name part: Wood, Adrian
    name part: 1946-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Clarendon Press
    publisher: Oxford Univ. Press
    date issued: ©1994
    date issued: 1994
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xxiii, 505 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: Expansion of trade in manufactures between developed and developing countries has had a far greater effect on labour markets than earlier research suggested. This book examines the issues.
  table of contents: Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Summary and Conclusions -- 1.1 Trends and disputes -- 1.2 Skill as the basis of North- South trade -- 1.3 Causes of the change in North- South trade -- 1.4 Size of the impact on labour markets -- 1.5 Sectoral effects of the change in trade -- 1.6 Skill differentials and inequality in the South -- 1.7 Skill differentials and inequality in the North -- 1.8 Unemployment in the North -- 1.9 Will the future be like the past? -- 1.10 Policy implications in the South -- 1.11 Policy implications in the North.
  table of contents: 1.12 Costs of being wrong -- 2 Theoretical Framework -- 2.1 A skill-based model of North- South trade -- 2.1.1 Initial sketch -- 2.1.2 Relative factor price convergence -- 2.1.3 Transport costs -- 2.1.4 Land -- 2.2 Capital -- 2.2.1 Nature of capital -- 2.2.2 Nontraded capital goods -- 2.2.3 Scarcity and profitability -- 2.2.4 Comparative advantage and capital intensity -- 2.3 Knowledge, skill, and technology -- 2.3.1 Heckscher- Ohlin assumptions -- 2.3.2 Direct and indirect skill -- 2.3.3 Ricardian theory reinterpreted -- 2.4 Skill further considered -- 2.4.1 Common denominators of skill.
  table of contents: 2.4.2 Skill categories -- 2.4.3 Skill formation -- 2.4.4 International labour mobility -- 2.5 Wage determination -- 2.5.1 Relative wages -- 2.5.2 Real wages -- 2.6 Summary -- Part A: Patterns and Magnitudes -- Introduction -- 3 Evidence from Previous Studies -- 3.1 Factor content methodology -- 3.2 Disentangling skill and capital -- 3.3 Studies of the South -- 3.4 Studies of the North -- 3.5 Joint North- South studies -- 3.6 Summary -- 4 Factor Content of Noncompeting Trade -- 4.1 Methodology -- 4.2 Factor content coefficients -- 4.3 Output effects -- 4.4 Impact on factor demand -- 4.5 Summary.
  table of contents: Part B: Causes and Consequences -- Introduction -- 5 Trade Shifts and Sectoral Side-Effects -- 5.1 Causes of change in North- South trade -- 5.2 Wage and employment effects -- 5.3 Sectoral consequences in the South -- 5.4 Sectoral consequences in the North -- 5.5 Summary -- 6 Skill Differentials and Inequality in the South -- 6.1 Theoretical considerations -- 6.2 Changes in income inequality -- 6.3 Time-series case studies -- 6.4 Summary -- 7 Skill Differentials and Inequality in the North -- 7.1 Trends in skill differentials -- 7.2 Consistency of the trade explanation.
  table of contents: 7.3 Another explanation: new technology -- 7.4 Summary -- 8 Unemployment in the North -- 8.1 Alternative explanations -- 8.2 Evidence on mismatch -- 8.3 Cross-country variation -- 8.4 Summary -- Part C: Prospects and Policies -- Introduction -- 9 Past and Future -- 9.1 General approach -- 9.2 Trade barrier reductions -- 9.3 Skill supply changes -- 9.4 Summary -- 10 Policy Options for the North -- 10.1 Problems and possibilities -- 10.2 Motives for intervention -- 10.3 Policy instruments -- 10.4 Alternative policy packages -- 10.5 Costs of being wrong -- 10.6 Summary -- Appendices.
  note: Adrian Wood.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 471-491) and index.
  note: English.
  subject:
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  subject:
    topic: Labor market
    geographic: Developing countries
  subject:
    topic: Labor market
  subject:
    geographic: Developing countries
    topic: Commerce
  subject:
    topic: Income distribution
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Unemployment
    geographic: Europe
  subject:
    topic: International division of labor
  subject:
    topic: International trade
  subject:
    topic: Income
  subject:
    topic: Employment (Economic theory)
  subject:
    topic: Labor market
  subject:
    topic: Income
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Employment
  subject:
    topic: Unemployment
    geographic: Europe
  subject:
    topic: International trade
  subject:
    topic: Marché du travail
    geographic: Pays en voie de développement
  subject:
    topic: Marché du travail
  subject:
    topic: Revenu
    topic: Répartition
    geographic: États-Unis
  subject:
    topic: Chômage
    geographic: Europe
  subject:
    topic: Division internationale du travail
  subject:
    topic: Commerce international
  subject:
    geographic: Pays en voie de développement
    topic: Commerce
  subject:
    topic: Revenu
  subject:
    topic: Emploi
  subject:
    topic: employing
  subject:
    topic: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
    topic: Labor
  subject:
    topic: Pays en développement
  subject:
    topic: Relations Nord-Sud
  subject:
    topic: UE/CE Etats membres
  subject:
    topic: Marché du travail
  subject:
    topic: Inégalités sociales
  subject:
    topic: Commerce international
  subject:
    topic: Income
  subject:
    topic: Commerce
  subject:
    topic: Income distribution
  subject:
    topic: International division of labor
  subject:
    topic: International trade
  subject:
    topic: Labor market
  subject:
    topic: Unemployment
  subject:
    geographic: Developing countries
  classification: HD5852 .W65 1994eb
  classification: 331.12/09172/4
  classification: 331.02
  classification: 83.42
  classification: 83.14
  classification: 83.40
  classification: 83.46
  identifier: 9780191521324
  identifier: 0191521329
  identifier: 0198290152
  identifier: 9780198290155
  identifier: 9780191597015
  identifier: 0191597015
  identifier: 0198283520
  identifier: 9780198283522
  identifier: 1281989460
  identifier: 9781281989468
  identifier: 9786611989460
  identifier: 6611989463
  identifier: 93030541
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geographic: Europe

geographic: United States

topic: Internationale handel

topic: Noord-Zuidverhouding

topic: Arbeidsmarkt

topic: Inkomensverdeling

topic: Commerce
geographic: Pays en voie de développement

topic: Commerce international

topic: Division internationale du travail

topic: Chômage
geographic: Europe

topic: Marché du travail
topic: Disparités régionales

topic: Revenu
topic: Répartition
geographic: États-Unis

topic: Commerce extérieur et emploi

topic: Commerce extérieur et emploi
geographic: Pays industrialisés

topic: Developing countries
topic: Labour market

title info:
  title: North-South trade, employment, and inequality
name:
  name part: Wood, Adrian, 1946-
origin info:
  publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford Univ. Press, ©1994
identifier: (DLC) 93030541
identifier: (OCoLC)28710862

identifier: (DLC) 93030541

identifier: (DLC) 93030541
identifier: (OCoLC)28710862

title info:
  title: IDS development studies series

record content source: N$T
record creation date: 090523
record change date: 20260318174422.3
record identifier: in00005703738
language of cataloging:
  language term: eng