While most standard economic models of international trade
assume full employment, Carl Davidson and Steven Matusz have argued
over the past two decades that this reliance on full-employment
modeling is misleading and ill-equipped to tackle many important
trade-related questions. This book brings together the authors'
pioneering work in creating models that more accurately reflect the
real-world connections between international trade and labor
markets.
The material collected here presents the theoretical and
empirical foundations of equilibrium unemployment modeling, which
the authors and their collaborators developed to give researchers
and policymakers a more realistic picture of how international
trade affects labor markets, and of how transnational differences
in labor markets affect international trade. They address the
shortcomings of standard models, describe the empirics that
underlie equilibrium unemployment models, and illustrate how these
new models can yield vital insights into the relationship between
international trade and employment. This volume also includes an
indispensable general introduction as well as concise section
introductions that put the authors' work in context and reveal the
thinking behind their ideas.
Economists are only now realizing just how important these
ideas are, making this book essential reading for researchers and
students.
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