Globalization and Unemployment

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-VI

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Helmut Wagner

      Pages 1-13

3. Globalization

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. Challenges

      1. Meeting the Challenges of Globalization in the Advanced Economies

         • Daniel Citrin, Stanley Fischer

         Pages 19-35

   3. Historical Perspective

      1. Globalization in Historical Perspective

         • Kevin H. O’Rourke

         Pages 39-53

4. Unemployment

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-55

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   2. Empirical Trends

      1. International Unemployment Trends: Measurement and Stylized Facts

         • Ronald Schettkat, Marinus Verhagen

         Pages 59-85

   3. Theoretical Explanations

      1. Unemployment: Theoretical Explanations

         • Thomas Beißinger, Joachim Möller

         Pages 89-133

      2. Comment on Beißinger and Möller: “Unemployment: Theoretical Explanations”

         • Bernd Fitzenberger

         Pages 135-140

      3. Endogenously Biased Technical Progress and the Macroeconomic Structure of Employment and Wages

         • Winfried Vogt

         Pages 141-159

5. Globalization and Unemployment

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 161-161

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   2. Effects of Globalization on Unemployment

      1. Wages, Unemployment, and Globalization: a Tale of Conventional Wisdoms

         • Oliver Landmann

         Pages 165-191

      2. Comment on Landmann : “Wages, Unemployment, and Globalization: a Tale of Conventional Wisdoms”

         • Arne Heise

         Pages 193-199

   3. Effects of European Monetary Integration on Unemployment

      1. Effects of European Monetary Integration on Unemployment: How Costly Was (Intra-European) Exchange Rate Variability?

         • Ansgar Belke, Daniel Gros

         Pages 203-242

      2. Comment on Belke and Gros : “Effects of European Monetary Integration on Unemployment”

         • Carsten Hefeker

         Pages 243-252

6. Globalization, Unemployment and Economic Policies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 253-253

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   2. Labor Market Policy

      1. Labor Market Policy in a Global Economy

         • Norbert Berthold, Rainer Fehn

         Pages 257-296

      2. Labor Market Analysis and Labor Market Policy in a Global Economy — An Alternative View (Commentary Paper)

         • Jürgen Kromphardt

         Pages 297-309

   3. Fiscal Policy

      1. Fiscal Policy and Unemployment in a Global Economy

         • Clemens Fuest, Bernd Huber, Florian Wöhlbier

         Pages 313-331

      2. Comment on Fuest, Huber and Wöhlbier : “Fiscal Policy and Unemployment in a Global Economy”

         • Matthias Wrede

         Pages 333-340

Globalization and unemployment are two phenomena which are amongst the most widely discussed subjects in the economic debate today. Often, globalization is regarded as being responsible for the increase in unemployment, particularly in unskilled labor. This book deals with the correlation between globalization and unemployment under various aspects: historical aspects of globalization, empirical trends and theoretical explanations of unemployment, effects of globalization in general and of European Monetary Union in particular on umemployment, labor market policy in a global economy, the impact of fiscal policy on unemployment in a global economy, as well as the effects of globalization on inflation and national stabilization policy.

• Employment
• European Monetary Union
• Labor Market
• Unemployment
• global economy
• globalization
• integration

• University of Hagen, Hagen, Germany

  Helmut Wagner