Wage Inequality and Unemployment: US vs Europe

Giuseppe Bertola and Andrea Ichino

No 1186, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: The radical liberalization of foreign trade in Central and Eastern Europe since 1989 has been a key part of the economic reform and has been accompanied by a full-scale geographical reorientation of international trade from East to West. Increased trade with the EU has been associated with remarkably little change in the structure of that trade, which suggests that policy should be oriented towards facilitating rather than slowing industrial adjustment. Future trade policy priorities should include continued liberalization, better coordination of trade and exchange rate policy, the attraction of foreign direct investment, resistance to pressures for selective protection, further development of trade relations with the EU and of intra-regional trade relations, and full participation in the WTO.

Keywords: Job Security; Labour Income Inequality; Regional Unemployment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J23 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: Written 1995-05
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