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The opposition to a liberal stance on imports of manufactures from developing countries is growing as certain specific groups of products made in these countries prove increasingly competitive and the industrialized countries suffer from persistent high unemployment. Model computations for the six most important EC countries reveal however that the imports from developing countries have only a small impact on employment in these economies seen as a whole.
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Cf. D. Schumacher: Handel mit Entwicklungsländern und Beschäftigung in der Europäischen Gemeinschaft. Eine vergleichende Analyse anhand aktueller Import- und Exportströme im Handel mit Industrieprodukten (Trade with developing countries and empolyment in the European Community. A comparative Analysis on the basis of present import and export flows in the trade in industrial products).
Cf. D Schumacher, ibid., Handel mit Entwicklungsländern und Beschäftigung in der Europäischen Gemeinschaft. Eine vergleichende Analyse anhand aktueller Import- und Exportströme im Handel mit Industrieprodukten (Trade with developing countries and employment in the European Community. A comparative Analysis on the basis of present import and export flows in the trade in industrial products)., concerning the data and methods used and the qualifying assumptions made.
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The present article was first published in German in Wochenbericht des DIW, No. 17/81.
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Schumacher, D. Trade with developing countries and employment in the European Community. Intereconomics 16, 183–188 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02924767
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