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anticipated the collapse of the first era of globalization that began in the mid-nineteenth century. He admonished the short …
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The paper surveys three economic history literatures that can speak to contemporary challenges to globalization: the … literature on the anti-globalization backlash of the nineteenth century, focused largely on trade and migration; the literature …
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We document how explicit employer requests for applicants of a particular gender enter the recruitment process on a Chinese job board. Overall, we find that 19 out of 20 callbacks to jobs requesting a particular gender are of the requested gender. Mostly, this is because application pools to...
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We use new data on manufacturing in Canada to quantify the impact of globalization on the growth and composition of … controlling for these factors, we find that greater exposure to globalization shaped the pattern of regional industrialization in …
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The received view pins the adoption of labor regulation before 1914 on domestic forces. Using directed dyad-year event history analysis, we find that trade was also a pathway of diffusion. Market access served as an important instrument to encourage a level playing field. The type of trade...
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, globalization has been good for growth in poor countries at least by diminishing price volatility. But comparative advantage has … never been constant. Globalization increased poor country specialization in commodities when the world went open after the …
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W. Arthur Lewis argued that a new international economic order emerged between 1870 and 1913, and that global terms of trade forces produced rising primary product specialization and de-industrialization in the poor periphery. More recently, modern economists argue that volatility reduces growth...
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in capital inflows during an era of intensified globalization. We find that higher levels of original sin (hard currency …
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Recent research in international economic history has opened up new lines of enquiry on the origins of globalization …
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years were also ones of economic autarky and 'de-globalization', while the rest were ones of increasing globalization in … world commodity and factor markets, history offers an unambiguous positive correlation between globalization and convergence … causal: the globalization of commodity and factor markets served to play a critical, perhaps the critical, role in …
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