International Trade, Fairness, and Labour Migration

International Trade and Labour Markets

This dissertation consists of four essays that contribute to the literature on international trade and labour markets. The first essay studies the interaction between economic integration, product and process innovation, and relative skill demand in a model of international oligopoly. As trade barriers are dismantled foreign competition intensifies. Competing enterprises respond by investing mo...

Issues of Fairness in International Trade Agreements

In this paper, we first describe the characteristics of the World Trade Organization (WTO) that are the basis of the framework of the multilateral trading system. We then provide an overview of concepts of fairness in trade agreements. Thereafter, we offer a critique of the efficiency criterion in assessing multilateral trade agreements, taking issue with T.N. Srinivasan’s (2006) analysis and t...

International Trade And Employment In Labour- Intensive Sectors In Iran: The Case Of Carpet- Weavers

Global Trade Union Program International Trade Union Cooperation Core Labour Standards and International Organizations: What Inroads Has Labour Made?

Over its almost ninety years of existence, the International Labour Organization (ILO) has adopted 188 conventions that defi ne international labour standards in a wide variety of areas, such as limits on working time, occupational heath and safety standards, employment policy, and basic working conditions for specifi c categories of workers. For ILO conventions to have legal status and be enfo...

Discussion of International Trade and the Australian Labour Market

Throughout the OECD, the operations of labour markets in the 1970s and 1980s have produced outcomes unfavourable to labour in general and unskilled labour in particular. In the US, this has been reflected in declining real wages, with a slight increase in the unemployment rate. In other countries, it has been reflected in a slowdown in real wages growth and a severe increase in unemployment. At...