Titlebook: Global Trade and European Workers; Paul Brenton (Research Fellow),Jacques Pelkmans (S Book 1999 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmilla

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-10550-3roduction of many of these imports requires relatively large amounts of unskilled labour. At the same time, the wage rate for unskilled labour has declined relative to skilled labour in some European countries while elsewhere in Europe unemployment among the unskilled has increased substantially.. S

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Kostenstellenrechnung mit SAP? R/3?er the last 20 years. This phenomenon is likely to be accentuated by the rapid growth of demographic giants, such as, China and Indonesia. In this chapter we present an analysis of the future impact of this phenomenon on European labour markets using an applied general equilibrium model.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-32539-8example, the real earnings of the top tenth of male earners in the UK rose by 51 per cent, whereas the earnings of the bottom tenth only increased by 11 per cent.. Nickell (1996) shows that the unemployment rate of less-skilled males in the UK rose from 6.4 per cent in the mid-1970s to 18.2 per cent

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-88538-8n theme is that the impact of actions against low labour standards (or poor enforcement) have the unintended effect of depressing wages, particularly if actions are focused on labour-intensive sectors. The estimates suggest that these indirect effects can be sizeable, and that impacts on trade and e

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Book 1999nts contributions on this issue which place the analytical and policy debate into context and survey the relevant economic literature together with a range of empirically oriented papers. The focus is upon Europe, which, unlike the US, has received little attention in the debate on the impact of wor

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Rising Trade and Falling Wages: A Review of the Theory and the Empirics,tly, it is imports from Asia which dominate discussions, although these issues are equally pertinent for trade with Eastern Europe, the countries of the CIS (Former Soviet Union), and Latin America. We are not the only ones to try and catch the eye in this way, Freeman (1995) rather provocatively asks: ‘a(chǎn)re your wages being set in Beijing?’