The Influence Of International Trade On Employment

Since the Reform and Opening, we get a great advance in foreign trade; esspeciallyafter the entrance of WTO, our outward economy have entered a new historical stage. Theadjustment of economic & trade structure and transforming of population structure havesped. The problem of economic and trade growth mode is more and more serious.Employment-human resources structure is more prominent. The 21st century is a specialperiod that we make full use of the human resource advantage and its developmentpotential. With the aid of historical opportunity to "re-internationalize", we carry out ourrace to develop. It is also a crucial period to transform the economic and trade growthmode to meet with the transformation of population structure. Therefore, the principle andaim of this research are: Firstly, to study the relationship between foreign trade anddomestic employment; Secondly, to analyze comprehensively and thoroughly oninternational trade and its effect of employment of growth style and of human resourcestructure; Thirdly, to provide the policy suggestions for our trade development, for thestrategic transformation of the exploitation and for enlarging employment.Taking Marxist trade and employment theories as the instruction, it utilizes Marxiststandpoint, viewpoint and method, draws lessons from the west international tradetheories widely, and uses the scientific achievement for reference from developmenteconomics and modern economics, and also carries on the theories research on theinfluence of international trade on employment with lately international and domesticpractice fact, in order to construct a research system and find out the new research pathand methods, and expand new realm of study on international trade theory. Theresearches consider Chinese practice of Reform & Opening as a foothold to summary andgeneralize the regulation and trends of the influence of international trade on employmentin China, to provide some help of the theories for the transformation of current economy,to adjust policy of foreign trade and to make the policies of employment- human resourcedevelopment.By reorganizing and studyingthe literatures on the effect of international trade onemployment at home and abroad, the paper evaluates contribution and shortcomings ofthe literatures, displays the front of the research and new progress of the realm. Bycombing and summary the historical literatures, the paper displays different viewpoint in the theories field. By analyzing the historical experience of the main country ininternational trade, the paper verifies H-O-S and the foreign trade multiple theory that areuseful and limited to explain the effect of international trade. By sorting and improvingMarx's theory on trade, the paper displays the classes' characteristics of internationaltrade, unfair contents and cause in productivity of unfair trade in international market.By positive analysis, the paper puts forward some new methods such as mutualsupplement index analysis, structure analysis by insulating other factors and newproducing function etc. The analysis shows the paths of trade influence on employmentand its positive effect on employment in China: Be advantageous to exertive humanresource advantage and increasing employment, but influence weakening gradually.Thereinto, the influence of agricultural product trade lowers along with its shares down,industrial exports increase more and more employment, industrial imports also start todecrease employment, and service industry as a main outlet of the adding and presentquantities for employment will be enhance and promote continuously.By introspecting the strategy and policies of foreign trade development, andanalyzing the changing trend of human resource advantage and its developing andexploitation problem, the paper puts forward the strategic mission and counter-policy tochange economic & trade growth mode, to keep economic trade sustained development,to develop human resource and improve performance to install human resource.