Alternative Trade Strategies and Employment

Anne O. Krueger

Chapter 26 in Human Resources, Employment and Development, 1983, pp 387-404 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract During the extensive debate and research undertaken in the 1960s and early 1970s on the relative merits and drawbacks of import-substitution and export-promotion development strategies, little attention was paid to the effects of the alternatives on the demand for labour and its composition. This omission was curious for two reasons. On one hand, there had been the investigations emanating from the Leontief paradox literature, which seemed to refute the basic Heckscher—Ohlin model’s predictions, at least in their apparent implications for industrial countries’ factor intensities of export and import-competing production. On the other hand, the results of most analyses of developing countries’ experiences with export-promotion and import-substitution development strategies seemed to indicate that growth performance was generally considerably more satisfactory under the former than under the latter.

Keywords: Real Wage; Trade Strategy; Labour Input; Import Substitution; Trade Regime (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1983
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-22741-9_26

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