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incomes, education, innovation, and technology. But rapid globalization has also created concerns because the repercussions of … the new dynamics of turbo-charged globalization has the potential and power to destabilize our societies. Drawing on the … governments, businesses, and individuals can better manage risk in our contemporary world. Goldin and Mariathasan assert that the …
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of prosperity in the world economy.<p> …
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Many prominent critics regard the international financial system as the dark side of globalization, threatening … disadvantaged nations near and far. But in <i>The Next Great Globalization</i>, eminent economist Frederic Mishkin argues the … opposite: that financial globalization today is essential for poor nations to become rich. Mishkin argues that an effectively …
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This paper shows that endogenous adjustments in the composition of labor supplies magnify the effects of changes in commodity prices on the measured skill premium under quite plausible conditions. These composition effects arise from decisions of individuals with heterogeneous inherent abilities...
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We empirically assess the influence of globalization on social institutions that govern female subjugation and gender … equality in developing countries. Observing the progress of globalization for almost one hundred developing countries at ten … year intervals starting in 1970, we find that economic and social globalization exert a decidedly positive influence on the …
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This study empirically assesses the influence of globalization on the institutional root causes of gender equality as … measured by the new OECD Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI). We capture the multifaceted concept of globalization with … the KOF index and its three sub-indices which measure the economic, social and political dimensions of globalization …
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This paper studies the effect of globalization on public expenditures allocated to different stages of education. First …, we derive theoretically that globalization’s influence on education expenditures depends on the type of government. For … globalization on public education spending cannot be unambiguously predicted. In the second part of the paper, we empirically …
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So far no existing study has analyzed what determines people’s trust in the IMF, the World Bank, and the WTO even …, personal income, ideological preferences, interest in politics, and exposure to media) as well as the extent of globalization … WTO. Moreover, respondents’ attitudes towards globalization have a bearing on trust in all three international …
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Today's global economy, with most developed nations experiencing very low inflation, seems a world apart from the … globalization, mercantilism, and reserve accumulation. …
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employ the KOF index of globalization. The results show that globalization increased government sectors around the world …Two hypotheses relate to the globalization-welfare state nexus: The efficiency hypothesis predicts that globalization … contrast, predicts that globalization induces a higher demand for social insurance which results in an extended welfare state …
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