The Mechanics of Job Creation : Seizing the New Dividends of Globalization
This paper assesses some of the main strands of the theoretical literature on unemployment and employment and shows that their interesting conclusions may not be transferable to low-income countries whose endowment and production structures are pro...
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Format: | Policy Research Working Paper |
Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2014
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/10/18409490/mechanics-job-creation-seizing-new-dividends-globalization http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16877 |
Summary: | This paper assesses some of the main
strands of the theoretical literature on unemployment and
employment and shows that their interesting conclusions may
not be transferable to low-income countries whose endowment
and production structures are profoundly different from that
of high-income economies. It then tackles the knowledge
deficit on employment creation by shedding light on the new
economic opportunities that latecomers may derive from the
dynamics of globalization -- especially the economic success
of large emerging economies such as China and Brazil. It
offers a simple analytical framework for identifying
opportunities for labor arbitrage in the global economy and
suggests a practical policy framework for exploiting them. |
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