Globalisation and labour market inequalities

Bart Los

Chapter 3 in Technology, Globalisation and Migration, 2025, pp 36-51 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter deals with the impacts of globalisation on labour market inequalities. It discusses the fact that trade has positive welfare implications for all countries involved, but that not everyone within countries benefits from it. Some workers tend to be much better off than others. Hence, a major question is how ‘losers from globalisation’ could be facilitated to prevent an aggravation of the current backlash against globalisation. Answering this question requires evidence regarding at least three questions: 1) Who are these losers from globalisation?; 2) How and to what extent do they adjust?; and 3) How do workers who adjust fare relative to those who do not? The chapter reviews the literature regarding these questions and discusses the contributions to it of the GI-NI project. It pays specific attention to ‘trade in tasks’, the type of trade that has emerged since the rapid diffusion of internet-based information and communication technologies.

Keywords: Globalisation; Import exposure; Labour markets; Occupations; Adjustment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035373642
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