Understanding the links between increasing foreign competition and domestic employment and job loss -- Evidence from earlier studies -- Inside manufacturing : trends in international trade, employment, and job loss -- Modeling labor market responses to changes in trade and import competition --...

This book pulls together papers presented at a conference in honour of the 1981 Nobel Prize Winner for Economic Science, the late James Tobin. Among the contributors are Olivier Blanchard, Edmund Phelps, Charles Goodhart and Marco Buti. One of the main aims of the conference was to discuss what...