Has Globalization Gone Too Far?,9780881322415

Has Globalization Gone Too Far?

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ISBN13: 9780881322415
ISBN10: 0881322415
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1997-10-01
Publisher(s): Peterson Inst for Intl Economics
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Table of Contents

Preface vii(4)
Acknowledgments xi
1 Introduction
1(10)
Sources of Tension
4(3)
Globalization: Now and Then
7(2)
Implications
9(2)
2 Consequences of Trade for Labor Markets and the Employment Relationship
11(18)
Consequences of Trade with Countries Having Abundant Unskilled Labor
13(3)
Consequences of a More Elastic Demand for Workers
16(9)
Recapitulation
25(4)
3 Tensions between Trade and Domestic Social Arrangements
29(20)
Laying Out the Issues: The Example of Child Labor
29(6)
Trade and "Blocked Exchanges"
35(1)
The New Trade Issues and Demands for "Fair Trade"
36(2)
Integration and Social Policy in Europe
38(3)
Maastricht, the French Strikes, and the Social Dimension
41(3)
Do Differences in National Institutions Have Effects on Trade?
44(4)
Recapitulation
48(1)
4 Trade and the Demand for Social Insurance
49(20)
Is External Risk Important?
55(2)
Cross-Country Evidence on Openness, External Risk, and Government Activity
57(3)
Evidence from Panel Data for the OECD Countries
60(4)
Recapitulation
64(5)
5 Implications
69(20)
Social Disintegration as the Price of Economic Integration?
69(2)
Policy Implications
71(14)
Concluding Remarks
85(4)
Appendix A 89(7)
Appendix B 96(1)
References 97(6)
Index 103

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