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International Financial Integration and Real Exchange Rate Long-Run Dynamics in Emerging Countries: Some Panel Evidence

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Hadj Amor, Thouraya; Rault, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

The aim of this paper is to provide new empirical evidence on the impact of international financial integration on the long-run Real Exchange Rate (RER) in 39 developing countries belonging to three different geographical regions (Latin America, Asia and MENA). It covers the period 1979-2004,...

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Does Human Capital Protect Workers against Exogenous Shocks? South Africa in the 2008-2009 Crisis

Leung, Ron; Stampini, Marco; Vencatachellum, Désiré - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

capital provided a buffer against the shock. After controlling for observable characteristics, education and experience showed …

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How Did the Great Recession Affect Different Types of Workers? Evidence from 17 Middle-Income Countries

Cho, Yoonyoung; Newhouse, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper examines how different types of workers in 17 middle-income countries were affected by labor market retrenchment during the great recession. Impacts on different types of workers varied by country and were only weakly related to the severity of the shock. Among active workers, youth...

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Wage Rigidity and Disinflation in Emerging Countries

Messina, Julián; Sanz-de-Galdeano, Anna - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper examines the consequences of rapid disinflation for downward wage rigidities in two emerging countries, Brazil and Uruguay, relying on high quality matched employer-employee administrative data. Downward nominal wage rigidities are more important in Uruguay, while wage indexation is...

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What Determines the Share of Labour in National Income? A Cross-Country Analysis

Guerriero, Marta; Sen, Kunal - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Recent evidence on functional income distribution suggests that the shares of capital and labour in national income vary considerably both over time and across countries. Specifically, there seems to be a general reduction in the labour share around the world, in particular from the mid-1980s...

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Globalisation and the Future of the Welfare State

Chen, Yu-Fu; Görg, Holger; Görlich, Dennis; Molana, Hassan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper reconsiders the link between welfare state provision, globalisation and competitiveness empirically. We … of redistributive taxation are incompatible with economic globalisation. Our empirical analysis is motivated by recent … important aspect of globalisation, namely the activities of multinational companies, and investigate whether social expenditure …

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Between Agora and Shopping Mall

Falkinger, Josef - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

provide voters with knowledge of public issues. Modern information technologies and globalization are increasing the exposure … public policy. Complementing economic integration with political integration can increase the gains from globalisation …

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Trade Openness and the Demand for Skills: Evidence from Turkish Microdata

Meschi, Elena; Taymaz, Erol; Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

In this paper we report evidence on the relationship between trade openness, technology adoption and relative demand for skilled labour in the Turkish manufacturing sector, using firm-level data over the period 1980-2001. In a dynamic panel data setting using a unique database of 17,462 firms,...

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Does Globalisation Increase Child Labour?

Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio C.; Guarcello, Lorenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

so much globalisation, as being allowed to take part in it. …

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Trade as a Wage Disciplining Device

Persyn, Damiaan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We estimate how trade openness affects the relationship between wages, labour productivity and foreign wages using sector-level time series for several EU member states. In some countries wages became less responsive to foreign wages as trade costs declined. We show this counter-intuitive result...

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