In 'Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia,' Blanchflower and Oswald (2005) observe an … apparent puzzle: they claim that Australia ranks highly in the Human Development Index (HDI), but relatively poorly in … happiness. However, when we compare their happiness data with the HDI, Australia appears happier, not sadder, than its HDI score …

. Using a GARCH model, we find that Australia experienced more volatility than many commodity exporting poor countries between …

evolution of intra-German trade flows after reunification then provides new insights for both the globalization and border …

choices and interpret them structurally as reactions, shaped by country-specific characteristics, to exogenous globalization …

sources into those attributable to productivity events in the core and to globalization forces connecting core to periphery …

fact been bell-shaped. We argue that this bell-shaped evolution of wage inequality can be linked to globalization and a … rise in offshoring. To analyze the relationship between globalization, offshoring and relative wages, we develop a general … equilibrium model of trade and offshoring. This reveals that globalization and offshoring have two opposing effects on relative …