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Alternative Trade Strategies and Employment

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  • Anne O. Krueger

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During the extensive debate and research undertaken in the 1960s and early 1970s on the relative merits and drawbacks of import-substitution and export-promotion development strategies, little attention was paid to the effects of the alternatives on the demand for labour and its composition. This omission was curious for two reasons. On one hand, there had been the investigations emanating from the Leontief paradox literature, which seemed to refute the basic Heckscher—Ohlin model’s predictions, at least in their apparent implications for industrial countries’ factor intensities of export and import-competing production. On the other hand, the results of most analyses of developing countries’ experiences with export-promotion and import-substitution development strategies seemed to indicate that growth performance was generally considerably more satisfactory under the former than under the latter.

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  • Anne O. Krueger, 1983. "Alternative Trade Strategies and Employment," International Economic Association Series, in: Burton Weisbrod & Helen Hughes (ed.), Human Resources, Employment and Development, chapter 26, pages 387-404, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:intecp:978-1-349-22741-9_26
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-22741-9_26
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    4. Shouxin Bai & Shicheng Zhou & Yuyao Sheng & Xingwei Wang, 2022. "Does Lockdown Reduce Employment in Major Developing Countries? An Assessment Based on Multiregional Input–Output Model and Scenario Analysis," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(12), pages 1-19, June.
    5. Mauricio Mesquita Moreira & Sheila Najberg, 2000. "Trade liberalisation in Brazil: Creating or exporting jobs?," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 36(3), pages 78-99.
    6. Augey Dominique, 1995. "Political Economy Of Policy Reform In Developing Countries," Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, De Gruyter, vol. 6(4), pages 1-8, December.
    7. Gérard Grellet, 1992. "Pourquoi les pays en voie de développement ont-ils des rythmes de croissance aussi différents ? Un survol critique de quelques orthodoxies contemporaines," Revue Tiers Monde, Programme National Persée, vol. 33(129), pages 31-66.
    8. Aiting Goh, 1999. "Trade, employment and fertility transition," The Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 8(2), pages 143-184.

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