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A Third World data base documenting commodity and factor prices 1870-1940 has been collected, yielding annual time …/rental ratios the world round between 1870 and 1940. The data offer a useful way to identify the impact of globalization on the pre …-industrial Third World. This paper finds commodity price convergence to have been bigger in the Third World than the Atlantic economy …
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of life deep into the 18th century. Does world market integration breed more or less commodity price volatility? The … been associated with much greater commodity price volatility, while world market integration associated with peace and pro … never been constant. Globalization increased poor country specialization in commodities when the world went open after the …
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The rise in world trade since 1970 has raised international mobility of labor services. We study the effect of such a … globalization of the world's labor markets. We find that when people can choose between wage work and managerial work, the output …
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Large gaps in labor productivity between the traditional and modern parts of the economy are a fundamental reality of developing societies. In this paper, we document these gaps, and emphasize that labor flows from low-productivity activities to high-productivity activities are a key driver of...
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developing countries and emerging markets have experienced from integrating into the world economy over the past half century …
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for highly trained and skilled scientists and engineers from the world over. Though this is likely to persist for some …
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. Embodied ethics for our interdependent world: how our micro-level choices lead to macro-level impacts -- 3. Unintended …
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"This book is a comprehensive collection of research on the emergence of information technology and its effect on society, focusing on the advancements made throughout social changes and the application of information systems"--Provided by publisher.
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the dynamics of these two phenomena in countries across the world and the varying successes of regional regulations …Historical and methodological approaches to the analysis of international labor migration in a globalizing world …
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This paper addresses the interactions between globalization, the quality of democracy, and economic convergence using simultaneous estimation techniques. To reflect process, we use multi-dimensional, de facto, and continuous measures of democracy and globalization. To reflect context, as defined...
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