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Globalization, Labor Income, and Poverty in Mexico
Hanson, Gordon H. - 2005
In this paper, I examine changes in the distribution of labor income across regions of Mexico during the country …'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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467660
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Retail Globalization and Household Welfare : Evidence from Mexico
Atkin, David - 2015
The arrival of global retail chains in developing countries is causing a radical transformation in the way that households source their consumption. This paper draws on a new collection of Mexican microdata to estimate the effect of foreign supermarket entry on household welfare. The richness of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457491
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Who is Neoliberal? Durkheimian Individualism and Support for Market Mechanisms
Landier, Augustin; Thesmar, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper investigates the drivers of support for market mechanisms (competition and optimizing behavior by agents). We elicit such attitudes using concrete and simplified situations where respondents face a tradeoff between an economically efficient situation and a pro-social objective. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191037
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Searching for the EU Social Dialogue Model
Freeman, Richard B. - 2006
The European Union and the United States operate different variants of market capitalism. The EU model uses social dialogue institutions to help determine economic outcomes, particularly in the labor market, whereas the US relies more on market forces. The theory of competitive markets provides...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466363
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Government Finance in the Wake of Currency Crises
Burnside, Craig - 2003
recent currency crises: Korea (1997), Mexico (1994) and Turkey (2001) …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468912
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On the Fiscal Implications of Twin Crises
Burnside, Craig - 2001
use our model and the data to interpret the recent currency crises in Mexico and Korea. Our analysis suggests that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470447
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Are Windfalls a Curse? A Non-Representative Agent Model of the Current Account and Fiscal Policy
Tornell, Aaron - 1994
In several countries temporary terms of trade improvements have led to a deterioration of the current account. Furthermore, many of these countries failed to attain greater post-boom growth rates. The point we make is that the structure of the fiscal process is critical in determining outcomes....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474076
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Financial policies and the world capital market : the problem of Latin American countries. [Result of the National Bureau of Economic Research Conference on Financial Policies and...
Aspe Armella, Pedro (ed.); Dornbusch, Rudiger (contributor);  … - 1983
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013480799
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Trapped in the Trilemma : When Security Trumps Economics
Bordo, Michael D.; James, Harold - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper describes the challenges of globalization in terms of the logic underpinning four distinct policy … vulnerabilities. They can be described as the impossible policy choices at the heart of globalization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388862
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Studies in state and local public finance
Rosen, Harvey S. (ed.) - 1986
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000707718