This paper considers the impact of liberalized trade policy on child labor in a developing country. While trade liberalization entails an increase in the relative price of the exported product, trade theory provides ambiguous predictions on how this price change affects the incidence of child...

"By documenting the evolution of Tobin's "q" before, during, and after firms internationalize, this paper provides evidence on the bonding, segmentation, and market timing theories of internationalization. Using new data on 9,096 firms across 74 countries over the period 1989-2000, we find that...

Stand beim 1. McPlanet-Kongress von Attac, BUND, Greenpeace, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung und Wuppertal-Institut die Umwelt (dokumentiert in "Die Umwelt in der Globalisierungsfalle", VSA 2003, hier nicht angezeigt) im Zentrum, so dominierte bei dem hier dokumentierten 2. Kongress vom Juni 2005 das...

A Third World data base documenting commodity and factor prices 1870-1940 has been collected, yielding annual time series on wage/rental ratios, land/labor ratios, the terms of trade, and other explanatory variables for: Argentina, Burma, Egypt, Japan, Korea, the Punjab, Taiwan, Thailand and...