Trade and Jobs in Europe: Much Ado About Nothing?

Trade and Jobs in Europe: Much Ado About Nothing?
ISBN-10
0191522120
ISBN-13
9780191522123
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
200
Language
English
Published
1999-08-05
Publisher
OUP Oxford
Authors
Andre Sapir, Mathias Dewatripont, Khalid Sekkat

Description

In the last 25 years, Europe has experienced a reduction in growth and an explosion in unemployment. At a time when this and the continuing existence of the welfare state are top of the European agenda, it has become increasingly popular to blame the globalization of the world economy for current problems. This book provides the first comprehensive set of studies on the impact of trade with developing countries on the European labour market. It argues that the evidence does not point to trade with developing countries as a major cause of European unemployment. Instead, technological change and domestic policy choices are the main causal factors. As a result, the contributors argue against protectionist trade polices, whose benefits to employment would be limited at best, but whose risk to world growth due to trade wars is immense. The next ten years are a critical period for European integration and expansion: Trade and Jobs in Europe will be of crucial importance to all those at the heart of the current debate: advisers, policy-makers, and researchers alike.

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