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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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This paper studies the effect of globalization on public expenditures allocated to different stages of education. First …, we derive theoretically that globalization’s influence on education expenditures depends on the type of government. For … globalization on public education spending cannot be unambiguously predicted. In the second part of the paper, we empirically …
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So far no existing study has analyzed what determines people’s trust in the IMF, the World Bank, and the WTO even …, personal income, ideological preferences, interest in politics, and exposure to media) as well as the extent of globalization … WTO. Moreover, respondents’ attitudes towards globalization have a bearing on trust in all three international …
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The study examines local responses to globalization, with Cebu as a case in point. It describes the initiatives of the …
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developing countries a new and attractive complementary strategy to multilateralism. Most countries of the world today belong to …
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Globalization process has entailed trade openness, greater emphasis on foreign direct investment, stabilization …
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Recognition of the interdependencies characterizing the Earth (a global common) and the globalization phenomenon …
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In Pacific Asia, globalization has resulted in rapidly growing international flows of goods, portfolio capital, and …
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