Trade and Employment in the Global Crisis
Marion Jansen‚ Erik Von Uexkull

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Based on the findings of ILO-sponsored studies of employment impacts in Brazil, Egypt, India, Liberia, South Africa, Uganda and Ukraine during the global crisis, this book analyses how cross-border trade has acted as a transmission channel, spreading the crisis to developing and emerging economies. Key topics covered include the role of export concentration in increasing labour markets’ vulnerability to trade shocks, the effects of global price volatility on household and company investment decisions, the impact of the global slowdown on workers’ and governments’ bargaining power and the impact of negative trade shocks on gender inequality.

 

The book reviews the suitability of the different policy instruments that countries have applied during the crisis. The authors conclude that in countries where effective policy instruments were in place before the crisis, these acted as an automatic buffer that could be easily scaled up.

 

About the Author(s) / Editor(s)

Marion Jansen is the co-ordinator of the ILO's Trade and Employment Programme. She previously worked in the WTO's Research and Statistics Department and co-authored the first ILO-WTO joint study, Trade and employment: Challenges for policy research.

 

Erik von Uexkull is an economist with the ILO's Trade and Employment Programme. He previously worked in the World Bank's International Trade Department and is specialized in trade and employment, regional integration, and export diversification.

 

Contents in Detail

List of tables, figures and boxes

 

Preface

 

Acknowledgements

 

 


1. Introduction

 

 

2. Trade flows and labour markets during the crisis: 
    What global data tells us.

 

 

2.1 Trade, employment and transmission
      of economic crises

 

2.2 Global trade and price trends during
      the crisis

 

2.3 Global employment and wage trends
      during the crisis

 

 

 

 

 

 


3. The impact of the crisis at the country level and
    trade as a transmission channel

 

 

3.1 Introduction to the ILO's country-level work
      on the crisis: What, where and how?

 

3.2 Ukraine: The role of export concentration

 

3.3 Liberia and Uganda: Interaction between global
      food and commodity price inflation in 2007/08
      and the global economic crisis of 2008/09 

 

3.4 India and South Africa: Secondary effects
      of the trade shock

 

3.5 Brazil: Distributional effects of trade
      during the crisis

 

3.6 Egypt: Gender impact of trade during
      the crisis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


4. Policy responses .

 


4.1 Trade policy and trade finance

 

4.2 Sectoral and company-specific
      stimulus programmes

 

4.3 Cross-sectoral measures

 

4.4 Policy conclusions

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5. Conclusions.

 


Annex 1: Description of variables in cross-country
               data on crisis impact and potential
               transmission channels 

 

Annex 2: Selected countries, exports by major
               product group, 2008

 

Annex 3: Description of the model and data
               used for the South Africa and India study


 
Annex 4: Detailed results of the modelling
               exercise for India

 

Annex 5: Detailed results of the modelling
               exercise for South Africa

 

Annex 6: Description of the STAGE_LAB model
               and SAM used for the Brazil study 158

 

 

Bibliography


Publisher AF Press
Publication Date 2010
Number of Pages 174
ISBN 9789221233343
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Academic Foundation (AF), based in New Delhi, is India’s leading independent publisher of academic/scholarly books in Social Sciences, specialising in Economics—Development Economics and Indian Economy in particular, and allied subjects.

About the Book

Based on the findings of ILO-sponsored studies of employment impacts in Brazil, Egypt, India, Liberia, South Africa, Uganda and Ukraine during the global crisis, this book analyses how cross-border trade has acted as a transmission channel, spreading the crisis to developing and emerging economies. Key topics covered include the role of export concentration in increasing labour markets’ vulnerability to trade shocks, the effects of global price volatility on household and company investment decisions, the impact of the global slowdown on workers’ and governments’ bargaining power and the impact of negative trade shocks on gender inequality.

 

The book reviews the suitability of the different policy instruments that countries have applied during the crisis. The authors conclude that in countries where effective policy instruments were in place before the crisis, these acted as an automatic buffer that could be easily scaled up.

 

About the Author(s) / Editor(s)

Marion Jansen is the co-ordinator of the ILO's Trade and Employment Programme. She previously worked in the WTO's Research and Statistics Department and co-authored the first ILO-WTO joint study, Trade and employment: Challenges for policy research.

 

Erik von Uexkull is an economist with the ILO's Trade and Employment Programme. He previously worked in the World Bank's International Trade Department and is specialized in trade and employment, regional integration, and export diversification.

 

Contents in Detail

List of tables, figures and boxes

 

Preface

 

Acknowledgements

 

 


1. Introduction

 

 

2. Trade flows and labour markets during the crisis: 
    What global data tells us.

 

 

2.1 Trade, employment and transmission
      of economic crises

 

2.2 Global trade and price trends during
      the crisis

 

2.3 Global employment and wage trends
      during the crisis

 

 

 

 

 

 


3. The impact of the crisis at the country level and
    trade as a transmission channel

 

 

3.1 Introduction to the ILO's country-level work
      on the crisis: What, where and how?

 

3.2 Ukraine: The role of export concentration

 

3.3 Liberia and Uganda: Interaction between global
      food and commodity price inflation in 2007/08
      and the global economic crisis of 2008/09 

 

3.4 India and South Africa: Secondary effects
      of the trade shock

 

3.5 Brazil: Distributional effects of trade
      during the crisis

 

3.6 Egypt: Gender impact of trade during
      the crisis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


4. Policy responses .

 


4.1 Trade policy and trade finance

 

4.2 Sectoral and company-specific
      stimulus programmes

 

4.3 Cross-sectoral measures

 

4.4 Policy conclusions

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5. Conclusions.

 


Annex 1: Description of variables in cross-country
               data on crisis impact and potential
               transmission channels 

 

Annex 2: Selected countries, exports by major
               product group, 2008

 

Annex 3: Description of the model and data
               used for the South Africa and India study


 
Annex 4: Detailed results of the modelling
               exercise for India

 

Annex 5: Detailed results of the modelling
               exercise for South Africa

 

Annex 6: Description of the STAGE_LAB model
               and SAM used for the Brazil study 158

 

 

Bibliography


Publisher AF Press
Publication Date 2010
Number of Pages 174
ISBN 9789221233343
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