This first book of a three-volume study examines the way trade policies
in developing countries affect the level and composition of employment.
There is special emphasis on the effects of import substitution policies
that attempt to make a country self-sufficient by producing local
substitutes for imports, as compared with policies that further the
expansion of imports.
Ten countries are studied: Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Indonesia, the Ivory
Coast, Pakistan, South Korea, Thailand, Tunisia, and Uruguay. The
contributors to the volume analyze the link between trade strategies and
employment within a common framework, and the analyses of trade policy
include the level and structure of protection, the relation of trade
policy to labor demand, the labor intensiveness of trade, and the extent
of distortions in factor markets and their effects on trade.