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This article examines how trade shocks shape labour market imperfections that create market power in labour markets and prevent an efficient allocation of labour. I develop a framework for measuring such labor market distortions in monetary terms and document large degrees of those distortions in Germany's manufacturing sector. Import competition can only exert labor market disciplining effects when firms rather than workers have labour market power. Otherwise, export demand and import competition shocks tend to fortify existing distortions by amplifying labour market power structures. This diminishes the gains from trade compared to a model with perfectly competitive labour markets.

"Foreword" -- "Series Editor Preface" -- "Contents" -- "Abbreviations" -- "List of Tables" -- "1 Introduction" -- "Being Determines Consciousness" -- "Introduction" -- "2 Between Positivism and Relativism" -- "References" -- "3 Two Concepts of Reality" -- "1 Positivist Traditions" -- "1.1 The Vienna Circle" -- "1.2 From Comte's Positivism to Empiriocriticism" -- "1.3 Pensée Unique" -- "2 Relativist Records" -- "2.1 Cultural Relativism" -- "2.2 Historical Relativism" -- "2.3 Romanticism" -- "2.4 From Scientific Relativity to Relativism" -- "2.5 Postmodernism and Populism" -- "3 Globalism vs. Alter-Globalisation" -- "References" -- "4 Two Concepts of Risk" -- "1 A Concept for Entrepreneurs" -- "1.1 The Modernist Thesis" -- "1.2 The Nautical Novel" -- "2 Response from the Risk Society" -- "References" -- "5 Two Functions of Risk" -- "1 Liberalisation" -- "1.1 Risk Prevention in Subsistence Farming" -- "1.2 Risk Mitigation in Diversified Farming" -- "1.3 Risk Management in Commercial Farming" -- "2 Regulation" -- "2.1 Food Testing on Local Markets" -- "2.2 Corporate Food Control by Municipal Authorities" -- "2.3 Food Safety Legislation at National Levels" -- "References" -- "6 The Battle for Agriculture" -- "1 Empirical Versus Rational Agriculture" -- "2 Dissenting Objectives" -- "2.1 Growth" -- "2.2 Equilibrium" -- "3 Different Methods" -- "3.1 Labour" -- "3.2 Resources" -- "4 Incongruent Scopes of Protection" -- "4.1 Anthropocentric" -- "4.2 Ecocentric" -- "5 GMOs, the Last Frontier" -- "5.1 Product-Based Regulation in the USA" -- "5.2 Process-Based Regulation in the European Union" -- "5.3 The Political Nature of Regulation" -- "References" -- "The Science-Based Approach of the SPS Agreement in Particular" -- "7 A Promise for Objectivity" -- "1 Freer Trade in Agricultural Products" -- "2 Deference to Science" -- "3 Resurfacing Swamplands".

Front matter; Contents; Preface; Map; The migration mystery; Islands of exit; Before the discontinuity and the start of modern times; West Sussex and the rural south; The discontinuity; The North American theatre; Migration in Shropshire and the English Midlands; Agrarian turmoil and the activation of mass mobility; West Cork and North Tipperary; The Australasian case; Upland adjustments: west Wales and Swaledale and the sequences of migration; Cornwall, Kent and London; Remote departures: the Scottish Highlands; The Irish case; The European extension; British emigration and the Malthus model