employment creation nor the decrease in within-country inequality are automatically assured by increasing trade and FDI. The …In this paper an ex-post measurable definition of globalization has been used, namely increasing trade openness and FDI … other main findings of the paper are that: 1) the employment effect can be very diverse in different areas of the world …

Despite increasing average real family incomes in Costa Rica in the late 1990s and early 2000s, poverty rates did not … fall. In this paper, we argue that during this period economic growth in Costa Rica did not translate into reduced poverty …-employed workers. These labor market phenomena, in turn, contributed to low incomes for households vulnerable to poverty, especially …

The flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) has increased dramatically in the last two decades. However, the … distribution of FDI is highly unequal and the competition among countries to attract foreign investors is fierce. This report … investigates the determinants of FDI inflows to developing countries in general and to the Federal Region of Kurdistan (FRK) in …

less clear, but this masks an important and novel result. We find strong evidence that FDI and portfolio equity liabilities …

growth and employment in export sectors, we have not found that undervaluation would raise it. Replacing the multicurrency …

We study the causal impact of the minimum wage on employment and welfare in Thailand using a difference …

The paper examines the relative effectiveness of two policy proposals in reducing unemployment and working poverty … granted to all low-wage earners regardless of their employment history and are of limitless duration. Our analysis indicates … workers are (i.e. the more their wages rise with employment duration), the more effective will unemployment vouchers be …