North-South Trade, Employment, and Inequality: Changing Fortunes in a Skill-Driven World

by Adrian Wood

In this important and topical book, Adrian Wood demonstrates that recent changes in North-South trade have had a far larger impact on labor markets than earlier studies imply, altering the relative demand for skilled and unskilled workers in the two regions. Developing his argument by incorporating three fields of economics--international, labor, and development--he suggests policies that could reduce the resulting social dislocation in the North,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198290152
• ISBN13: 9780198290155
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 536 Pages
• Weight: 1.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.2"