Understanding Globalization, Employment and

Do accelerating trade and foreign direct investment--experimented by most developing countries in the 1990s--imply a positive, negative, or neutral impact in terms of employment, income inequality and poverty alleviation? This book provides some empirically-tested answers to this question using an open-minded, unconventional economic approach and deriving original policy implications.

Eddy Lee is Director of the International Policy Group at the International Labour Office in Geneva, Switzerland. He is author of The Asian Financial Crisis: The Challenge for Social Policy.

Marco Vivarelli is Professor of Economics at the Catholic University of Piacenza in Italy and Senior Research Economist at the International Labour Office in Geneva, Switzerland. He is author of the book The Economics of Technology and Employment as well as a number of articles which have been published in international journals.

List of Tables

vii

List of Figures

x

Foreword

xi

Notes on the Contributors

xii

Part I The Framework

Introduction

3

(10)

Eddy Lee

Marco Vivarelli

External Liberalization in Asia, Post-Socialist Europe and Brazil

13

(26)

Lance Taylor

Comments

34

(5)

Raymond Torres

Globalization, Skill-Biased Technological Change and Labour Demand

39

(34)

Eli Berman

Stephen Machin

Comments

66

(7)

Marco Vivarelli

Part II Employment

The Employment Impact of Globalization in Developing Countries

73

(34)

Sanjaya Lall

Comments

101

(6)

Giorgio Barba Navaretti

Labour Demand of Developing Countries in a Decade of Globalization: A Statistical Insight

107

(36)

Jean-Baptiste Gros

Comments

139

(4)

Mariacristina Piva

Trade, Foreign Direct Investment and Employment: Some Empirical Evidence

143

(26)

Vincenzo Spiezia

Comments

163

(6)

Sanjaya Lall

Part III Income Distribution and Poverty

Trade Liberalization, Foreign Direct Investment and Income Inequality

169

(42)

Giovanni Andrea Cornia

Comments

208

(3)

Sanjay G. Reddy

Globalization, Skills and Within-Country Income Inequality in Developing Countries

211

(36)

Marco Vivarelli

Comments

243

(4)

Giovanni Andrea Cornia

Does Globalization Reduce Poverty? Some Empirical Evidence for the Developing Countries

247

(62)

Enrico Santarelli

Paolo Figini

Comments

303

(6)

Luigi Campiglio

Part IV Policy Implications and Conclusions

Globalization, Labour Markets and Social Outcomes in Developing Countries

309

(18)

Sanjay G. Reddy

The Social Impact of Globalization: The Scope for National Policies

327

(22)

Augustin Kwasi Fosu

International Strategy for Decent Work

349

(26)

John Langmore

Conclusion

375

(6)

Eddy Lee

Marco Vivarelli

Index

381

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