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Globalization, Fertility and Marital Behavior in a Lowest-Low Fertility Setting

Giuntella, Osea; Rotunno, Lorenzo; Stella, Luca - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we analyze the effects of exposure to globalization on the fertility and marital behavior in Germany, until recently a lowest-low fertility setting. We find that exposure to greater import competition from Eastern Europe led to worse...

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Land, Labor and Globalization in the Pre-Industrial Third World

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2000

A Third World data base documenting commodity and factor prices 1870-1940 has been collected, yielding annual time series on wage/rental ratios, land/labor ratios, the terms of trade, and other explanatory variables for: Argentina, Burma, Egypt, Japan, Korea, the Punjab, Taiwan, Thailand and...

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Globotics and Development : When Manufacturing is Jobless and Services are Tradable

Baldwin, Richard - 2020

development look like when digitech has rendered manufacturing jobless and many services freely traded? Our conclusion is that the … service-led development path may become the norm rather than the exception; think India, not China. Since success in the … service sector is based on quite different factors than success in manufacturing, development strategies and mindsets may have …

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New Technologies, Global Value Chains, and Developing Economies

Rodrik, Dani - 2018

Many of the exports of developing countries are channeled through global value chains (GVCs), which also act as conduits for new technologies. However, new capabilities and productive employment remain limited so far to a tiny sliver of globally integrated firms. GVCs and new technologies...

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Artificial Intelligence, Globalization, and Strategies for Economic Development

Korinek, Anton; Stiglitz, Joseph E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Progress in artificial intelligence and related forms of automation technologies threatens to reverse the gains that developing countries and emerging markets have experienced from integrating into the world economy over the past half century, aggravating poverty and inequality. The new...

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Commodity Price Volatility and World Market Integration since 1700

Jacks, David S. - 2009

Poor countries are more volatile than rich countries, and we know this volatility impedes their growth. We also know that commodity price volatility is a key source of those shocks. This paper explores commodity and manufactures price over the past three centuries to answer three questions: Has...

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Domestic Institutions and the Bypass Effect of Financial Globalization

Ju, Jiandong - 2007

This paper proposes a simple model to study the relationship between domestic institutions - financial system, corporate governance, and property rights protection - and patterns of international capital flows. It studies conditions under which financial globalization can be a substitute for...

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Distributional Effects of Globalization in Developing Countries

Goldberg, Pinelopi Koujianou - 2007

We discuss recent empirical research on how globalization has affected income inequality in developing countries. We begin with a discussion of conceptual issues regarding the measurement of globalization and inequality. Next, we present empirical evidence on the evolution of globalization and...

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Financial Globalization : A Reappraisal

Kose, M. Ayhan - 2006

The literature on the benefits and costs of financial globalization for developing countries has exploded in recent years, but along many disparate channels with a variety of apparently conflicting results. We attempt to provide a unified conceptual framework for organizing this vast and growing...

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Globalization and Poverty

Harrison, Ann - 2006

This essay surveys the evidence on the linkages between globalization and poverty. I focus on two measures of globalization: trade and international capital flows. Past researchers have argued that global economic integration should help the poor since poor countries have a comparative advantage...

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