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Globalization and Labor Markets: Developments in the Asia-Pacific

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Given the importance of globalization in today’s world, this salutary and timely book explores how globalization is specifically shaping the Asia-Pacific. It investigates future prospects and challenges, identifies the key winners and losers, and concludes in many cases that the portents for globalization are not particularly promising.

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  • Ian Harper, 2010. "Globalization and Labor Markets: Developments in the Asia-Pacific," Chapters, in: Noel Gaston & Ahmed M. Khalid (ed.), Globalization and Economic Integration, chapter 9, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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