While the impact of globalization on income inequality has received a lot of attention, little is known about its … firms and non-exporters. By the virtue of being exposed to higher competition, exporters require greater commitment and … men, exporters will statistically discriminate against female employees and will exhibit a higher GWG than non-exporters …

dimensions: Involuntary unemployment and income inequality between entrepreneurs and workers increase, and so does inequality …

the capital intensive export sectors. The overreactions cause unemployment, sluggish growth, a current account surplus and …

the wages for skilled and unskilled workers, leading to involuntary unemployment of unskilled workers in equilibrium … by lower wage differentials as well as higher unemployment. Allowing for endogenous skill formation in both countries …, the effects of a globalization shock – modelled as the entry of newly industrializing countries into the trading world …

changes. While employment and welfare increase in most countries, some experience higher unemployment and lower welfare. Labor …

conditions are a major determinant of entrepreneurship. Higher local unemployment rates are found to increase the probability … individuals who are initially not employed respond more to high local unemployment rates by starting businesses than wage … influences resulting in higher levels of business creation. Using the regression estimates for the local unemployment rate …

Efficiency wages theories argue that the threat of firing, coupled with a high unemployment rate, is a mechanism that … discourages employee shirking in asymmetric information contexts. Our empirical analysis aims to verify the role of unemployment …, we investigate the relationship between worker’s absences and local unemployment rate (at the provincial level). We find …

We investigate the relationship between unemployment and growth in China. We find considerable differences in the … find a hump-shaped relationship between unemployment and our proxy for the speed of reform. The current unemployment in …

how a person’s employment status affects cognitive well-being. Our results show that unemployment has a negative impact on … strengthens the loss in identity utility of men, but weakens that of women. Unemployment of a person’s partner reduces the …