Trade and employment in Asia

Select an Action

Title:

Author:

Khor, Niny.

ISBN:

9780415635653

9780203384824

Publication Information:

New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.

Physical Description:

xxv, 285 p. ; 25 cm.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1.Trade and employment: Introduction / Devashish Mitra -- 2.International trade, growth, and structural changes in employment in developing Asia / John Gilbert -- 3.Trade and the quality of employment: Asian and non-Asian countries / Niny Khor -- 4.Competition, labor intensity, and specialization: Structural changes in postcrisis Asia / Kanda Naknoi -- 5.Globalization, labor market regulation, and firm behavior / Paul Vandenberg -- 6.Exports and employment in the People's Republic of China / Du Yang -- 7.Trade and employment in Hong Kong, China: Towards a service economy / James P. Vere -- 8.Exports and employment in Indonesia: The decline in labor-intensive manufacturing and the rise of services / Chris Manning -- 9.Globalization and workers: Firm-level evidence from the Republic of Korea / Jeongeun Shin -- 10.Foreign labor in Malaysian manufacturing: Trends, Patterns, and Implications for Domestic Wages / Evelyn S. Devadason.

Subject Term:

Foreign trade and employment -- Asia.

Labor market -- Asia.

Free trade -- Asia.

Commerce.

Foreign trade and employment.

Geographic Term:

Added Author:

Copies:

Available:*

Library	Material Type	Item Barcode	Shelf Number	Copy	Status
Searching... 1:IIEMSA	1:GEN-BOOK	33168025595253	331.12095 K45T 2013	1	Searching... Unknown

Bound With These Titles

On Order

Summary

This volume investigates the links between employment, trade and structural transformation. In the context of global rebalancing, accompanied by inevitable changes in trade patterns between Asia and the rest of the world, the volume's chapters analyze the links between trade openness and trends in employment and its quality. Specifically, through Asian case studies (both analytical and econometric), the volume examines how trade and export-led growth models have led to specialization and evolving demands on various types of labor. The rapidly changing labor market contours in developing Asia during this era of globalization, along with the new context resulting from the recent global financial crisis and new insights from theoretical literature, have led to the need for such studies. This volume helps fill this gap in the literature.