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A domestic power faces an enemy and commits terrorist atrocities to increase the likelihood of victory. A foreign patron can grant aid to the power but prefers fewer or no atrocities. The domestic power responds by acquiescing in the creation of uncontrollable paramilitaries that commit even...
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We present a detailed, high-frequency dataset on the civil conflict in Colombia during the period 1988-2002. We briefly introduce the Colombian case and the methodological issues that hinder data collection in civil wars, before presenting the pattern over time of conflict actions and intensity...
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What is the impact of Chinese import competition on Nordic producer prices? In a panel covering 23 (2 digit) NACE manufacturing sectors from 1995 to 2008, instrumental variable estimations predict that when Chinese imports capture a 1% increase in market share, Nordic producer prices decrease by...
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evolution of intra-German trade flows after reunification then provides new insights for both the globalization and border …
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choices and interpret them structurally as reactions, shaped by country-specific characteristics, to exogenous globalization …
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sources into those attributable to productivity events in the core and to globalization forces connecting core to periphery …
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This paper provides a comprehensive survey of seven aspects of rising inequality that are usually discussed separately: changes in labor’s share of income; inequality at the bottom of the income distribution, including labor mobility; skill-biased technical change; inequality among high incomes;...
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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 …
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In this Paper, we provide a case study of the impact of globalization on income inequality using data across Chinese … demonstrate a greater decline in urban-rural income inequality. Thus, globalization has helped to reduce, rather than increase …
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This paper argues that globalization has led to a shift in developed countries from an industrial to an entrepreneurial … model of production. Globalization is interpreted as a level shock in the supply of unskilled labor to the world economy, a … move varieties between life cycle stages, their importance increases due to globalization. The many new opportunities for …
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