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's decade of globalization in the 1990's. I focus the analysis on men born in states with either high-exposure or low …-exposure to globalization, as measured by the share of foreign direct investment, imports, or export assembly in state GDP …
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Fears that globalization necessarily hurts the environment are not well-founded. A survey reveals little statistical …
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Globalization of trade and finance has gone a long way over the last half-century. But it is less impressive than most … international integration. The paper documents the extent of globalization, and some reasons for the barriers that remains. It then … environment. The conclusion is that globalization is not the primary obstacle to efforts to address such concerns …
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There is considerable debate over whether international trade has contributed to the declining economic fortunes of less skilled workers. One issue that has become lost in the current discussion is how firms respond to import competition and how these responses, in turn, are transmitted to the...
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This introduction to a forthcoming NBER volume on 'The Internationalization of Equity Markets' argues that the existing finance literature has in some respects not kept pace with world trends. Most empirical studies fail to take due account of the diversity of assets offered by countries around...
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In this paper, I examine changes in international trade associated with the integration of low- and middle-income countries into the global economy. Led by China and India, the share of developing economies in global exports more than doubled between 1994 and 2008. One feature of new trade...
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