Conference on Trade and Labour Market Adjustment

March 27th-28th 1999 University of Nottingham

Proceedings from this conference have subsequently been published in a special issue of The Review of International Economics and a volume of papers edited by Professors David Greenaway and Kwan Choi.

• James Proudman (Bank of England) and Steve Redding (London School of Economics and CEPR)
  "Evolving Patterns of International Trade"
• Sébastien Jean (CEPII, Paris)
  "The impact of international trade on labour demand elasticities"
• Michelle Haynes, Richard Upward and Peter Wright (University of Nottingham)
  "A comparative study of re-employment rates and sectoral mobility"
  Paper available as GEP research paper 99/7
• Linda Andersson, Ola Gustafsson and Lars Lundberg (FIEF, Stockholm)
  "Structural Change, competition and job turnover in the Swedish Manufacturing Industry 1964-96"
• Marius Brülhart (University of Manchester), Anthony Murphy and Eric Strobl (University College Dublin)
  "Intra-industry Trade and Job Turnover"
  Paper available as GEP research paper 98/4
• Mary Lovely (Syracuse Univsersity) and Doug Nelson (Tulane University)
  "Factor-market adjustment to inter-industry and intra-industry trade in a division of labor model"
• Pär Hansson (FIEF, Stockholm)
  "Relative Demand for skills in Swedish manufacturing: Technology or Trade?"
• Alan Deardorff (University of Michigan)
  "Policy implications of the trade and wages debate"
• David Bell, R. Hart (University of Stirling) and O. Huebler (University of Hanover)
  "Labour Market Adjustment on the Intensive Margin: A Comparative Study of Germany and the UK"
• Robin Naylor (University of Warwick)
  "Endogenous determination of trade regime and bargaining outcome"
• Karolina Ekholm (IUI, Stockholm)
  "Swedish multinationals and competition from low-wage countries"
• Lisandro Abrego and John Whalley (University of Western Ontario)
  "CGE modelling of trade and wages"
• Kwan Choi (Iowa State University)
  "Trade, Wages and the Adoption of a Universal Language"