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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011097661
According to the Globalization Paradox, globalization limits the freedom of choice for national governments. Capital …. Fixed factor taxes have the potential to improve welfare by defusing the globalization trilemma through a reduction in the …
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This study considers the effects of globalization, in its economic and social dimensions, on obesity and caloric intake … globalization and both obesity and caloric intake. A one standard deviation increase in globalization is associated with a 20 … social globalization, and specifically the effects of changes in information flows and social proximity. A one standard …
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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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Cultural and institutional differences among nations may result in differences in the ratios of marginal costs of goods in autarchy and thus be the basis of specialization and comparative advantage, as long as these differences are not eliminated by trade. We provide an evolutionary model of...
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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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