The globalization process is pervasive, bringing a range of pressures to bear on firms and workers. This volume presents a series of cutting-edge essays, investigating the ways in which firms and workers are adjusting to globalization.

The globalization process is pervasive, bringing a range of pressures to bear on firms and workers. This volume presents a series of cutting-edge essays, investigating the ways in which firms and workers are adjusting to globalization. Written by leading researchers in the field, the essays address such issues as: outsourcing; the productivity effects of entry to export markets; job losses and wage insurance; and the protection of intellectual property. Together, they provide important insights into the microeconomic effects of globalization and highlight key issues for policy makers.

1. Trade-Related Job Loss and Wage Insurance: A Synthetic Review: Lori Kletzer (University of California, Santa Cruz).
2. Liberalisation and Compensation: Carl Davidson and Steve Matusz (Michigan State University).
3. Structural Change and the Labour Market Effects of Globalisation: Noel Gaston (Bond University) and Doug Nelson (Tulane University).
4. Aspects of International Fragmentation: Wilhelm Kohler (University of Linz).
5. Outsourcing, foreign ownership and productivity: Evidence from UK establishment level data: Sourafel Girma and Holger Gorg (GEP, University of Nottingham)
6. Two Dimensions of Convergence: National and International Wage Adjustment Effects of Cross-Border Outsourcing in Europe: Peter Egger and Michael Pfaffermayr (University of Innsbruck).
7. 'Export Experience' Under Borrowing Constraints: Saqib Jafarey (University of Liverpool) and Sajal Lahiri (Southern Illinois University).
8. Entry to Export Markets and Productivity: A Microeconometric Analysis of Matched Firms: Sourafel Girma, David Greenaway and Richard Kneller (GEP, University of Nottingham).
9. Outsourcing Under Imperfect Protection of Intellectual Property: Amy Jocelyn Glass (Texas A M University).