Jobs and incomes in a globalizing world/ Ajit Kumar Ghose.

1. Introduction

2. Globalization: Characteristics, issues and concerns
What is globalization?
Globalization: An empirical sketch
Globalization: Then and now
Globalization: Issues and concerns
Appendix 2.1 List of countries

3. Trade and global income inequality
Introduction
Global income inequality, 1981-97
The preliminaries
Inter-country inequality, 1981-97 International inequality, 1981-97
Trade liberalization and global income inequality
Conclusions
Appendix 3.1 List of countries
Appendix 3.2 Percentage distribution of population by the inequality
trend in countries of residence

4. Trade, jobs and wages
Introduction
What does economic theory tell us?
The basic analytical framework
A necessary dose of realism
The empirical evidence




Trade and the pattern of specialization
Employment and wages in industrialized countries
Employment and wages in developing countries
A summing up
Appendix 4.1 Classification of manufacturing industries
Appendix 4.2 Ratio of manufacturing employment to total civilian
employment, average annual growth rate (%), various years
Appendix 4.3 Trade performance, selected ME countries, various years

5. Trade and international migration
Introduction
Trade and international migration: Insights from economic theory
International migration in the 1990s: The evidence
The trends
The phenomenon of brain drain
International migration, then and now
Conclusions
Appendix 5.1 Cumulative effects of emigration on population
and labour force in European countries, 1870-1910

6. Trade and labour standards
Introduction
Trade and labour standards: Theory and evidence
Some preliminaries
An analytical perspective
"Unfair trade" and "social dumping"
"Race to the bottom"
Improving labour standards in a developing economy
Concluding remarks

7. Conclusions References

Index