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impact of FDI in promoting the growth of host country exports and linkages to the outside world is clearer. The major role of … transfer of knowledge of world markets and of ways of fitting into worldwide production networks, not visible in standard …
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This paper provides a general and unified framework to study the role of production networks in international GDP comovement. We first derive an additive decomposition of bilateral GDP comovement into components capturing shock transmission and shock correlation. We quantify this decomposition...
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of China into the world economy may hurt countries that are driven to specialize in production due to HMEs, although …
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The model predicts a near doubling of the ratio of high- to low-skilled wages over the century. Increasing wage inequality arises from a traditional source -- a rising worldwide relative supply of unskilled labor, reflecting Chinese and Indian productivity improvements. But China's and India's...
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globalization of the world's labor markets. We find that when people can choose between wage work and managerial work, the output …The rise in world trade since 1970 has raised international mobility of labor services. We study the effect of such a …
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This paper assesses the claim the the US faces an impending labor shortage due to the impending retirement of baby boomers and slow growth of the US work force, and that the country should orient labor market and educational policies to alleviate this prospective shortage. I find that this...
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(1) The U.S. share of the world's science and engineering graduates is declining rapidly as European and Asian …
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The rules governing trade and capital flows have been at the center of controversy as globalization has proceeded. One …, IMF, and World Bank meetings demanding global labor standards. Comparing the claims made in this debate with the outcomes … market. Changes in trade policy have had modest impacts on labour market. Other aspects of globalization -- immigration …
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regimes: 1830 to the late 1850s, the 1850s to World War I, the interwar decades, and the post-World War II experience. Third …
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