International trade regulation and job creation

Artikel

Trade regulation can create jobs in the sectors it protects or promotes, but almost always at the expense of destroying a roughly equivalent number of jobs elsewhere in the economy. At a product-specific or micro level and in the short term, controlling trade could reduce the offending imports and save jobs, but for the economy as a whole and in the long term, this has neither theoretical support nor evidence in its favor. Given that protection may have other—usually adverse—effects, understanding the difficulties in using it to manage employment is important for economic policy.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: IZA World of Labor ; ISSN: 2054-9571 ; Year: 2020 ; Bonn: Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Trade and Labor Market Interactions ; Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations ; Economic Impacts of Globalization: Labor
• Subject: employment ; tariffs ; protection ; trade regulation

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Di Ubaldo, Mattia ; Winters, L. Alan
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2020

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.15185/izawol.75.v2
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/223602
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET