"The pathbreaking research synthesized in this volume shows that labor
market frictions are central to understanding the distributional consequences of
international trade. Anyone interested in the intellectual debate about globalization
should read this book. It is an essential reference for researchers and students in
international trade."--Stephen J. Redding, London School of Economics and
Political Science
"Davidson and Matusz pioneered the modern theory of international trade with labor
market frictions. This book knits together their major work on this subject, and delivers
fundamental insights concerning the effects of globalization on unemployment patterns,
wage distributions, adjustment burdens, intergenerational welfare gaps, and trade policy
formation. Any serious study of this literature should begin with this
volume."--James R. Tybout, Pennsylvania State University
"This is an important and timely volume. The quality of scholarship in these
papers is of a consistently high standard, and readers will not only find the individual
papers analytically rich but also accessible. The economics profession has finally
recognized just what a central issue trade with unemployment is--Davidson and Matusz
recognized it twenty years ago and have been building tractable models that have yielded
important insights."--David Greenaway, University of Nottingham
Carl Davidson is professor of economics and chair of the Department of
Economics at Michigan State University. Steven J. Matusz is professor of economics at
Michigan State. They are the authors of "International Trade and Labor Markets:
Theory, Evidence, and Policy Implications".
Table of Contents
PREFACE ix
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xv
CHAPTER 1: Our Motivation 1
PART 1: NEW INSIGHTS FROM "OLD" TRADE THEORY 25
Introduction to Part 1 27
CHAPTER 2: The Structure of Simple General Equilibrium Models with Frictional Unemployment
33
CHAPTER 3: Trade and Search-Generated Unemployment 60
PART 2: COMPLICATIONS 91
Introduction to Part 2 93
CHAPTER 4: Multiple Free Trade Equilibria in Micro Models of Unemployment 97
CHAPTER 5: Jobs and Chocolate: Samuelsonian Surpluses in Dynamic Models of Unemployment
110
CHAPTER 6: Long-Run Lunacy, Short-Run Sanity: A Simple Model of Trade with Labor Market
Turnover 138
PART 3: EMPIRICS 159
Introduction to Part 3 161
CHAPTER 7: Trade and Turnover: Theory and Evidence 165
CHAPTER 8: Trade, Turnover, and Tithing 195
PART 4: ADJUSTMENT COSTS AND POLICY ISSUES 221
Introduction to Part 4 223
CHAPTER 9: Should Policy Makers Be Concerned about Adjustment Costs? 227
CHAPTER 10: An Overlapping-Generations Model of Escape Clause Protection 265
CHAPTER 11: Trade Liberalization and Compensation 292
CHAPTER 12: Can Compensation Save Free Trade? 321
PART 5: NEW INSIGHTS FROM "NEW" TRADE THEORY 349
Introduction to Part 5 351
CHAPTER 13: Globalization and Firm-Level Adjustment with Imperfect Labor Markets 355
CHAPTER 14: Outsourcing Peter to Pay Paul: High-Skill Expectations and Low-Skill Wages
with Imperfect Labor Markets 388
INDEX 407
432 pages, Hardcover