The World Bank InfoShop and the Human Development Network present
Globalization, Wages, and the Quality of Jobs
CHAIR:
Arup Banerji, Director for Social Protection and Labor, Human Development Network, World Bank
AUTHORS:
Raymond Robertson, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Macalester College
Drusilla Brown, Associate Professor of Economics, Economics Department, Tufts University
DISCUSSANTS:
Kimberly Elliott, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
David Kaplan, Labor Economist, Finance and Private Sector Dvelopment, World Bank
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
3:00pm--4:30pm
Refreshments served
at
Auditorium J1-050
World Bank J Building
18 Street and Pennsylvania
RSVP to infoshopevents@worldbank.org
This new book provides a comprehensive literature review and a framework of analysis of globalization and working conditions in developing countries and applies this framework to five countries: Cambodia, El Salvador, Honduras, Indonesia, and Madagascar. In particular, it presents the experiences of these low-income countries and suggests that their working conditions have improved in the sectors exposed to globalization. However, it also highlights concerns about the sustainability of these improvements and the uncertainty of the impacts in the rest of the economy.
