We discuss recent empirical research on how globalization has affected income inequality in developing countries. We … begin with a discussion of conceptual issues regarding the measurement of globalization and inequality. Next, we present … empirical evidence on the evolution of globalization and inequality in several developing countries during the 1980s and 1990s …

allocated through long-run employment relationships (the 'invisible handshake'). Globalization can take two forms: International …We study the effect of globalization on the volatility of wages and worker welfare in a model in which risk is … raising the volatility of their wages. We thus formalize, but also sharply circumscribe, a common critique of globalization. …

import from related parties, dominate U.S. trade flows and employment at trading firms. We also find that firms that begin …This paper provides an integrated view of globally engaged U.S. firms by exploring a newly developed dataset that links … number of new dimensions of firm activity, including how many products firms trade, how many countries firms trade with, the …

women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment decisions of women who gain greater access to …

impact on the growth and investment decisions of firms. The model features interactions between firms' dynamic fixed … matches data on firm growth, worker transitions between firms and export dynamics suggests that frictions in job …

trade links are valuable for firms. Using customs and port authority data on the international shipments of all U ….S. publicly-traded firms, we show that firms are significantly more likely to trade with countries that have a strong resident … shocks to local ethnic populations, and identify a causal link between local networks and firm trade links. Firms that …

Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back … the considerable gains in employment rates it had achieved during the 1990s, with major contractions in manufacturing … employment being a prime contributor to the slump. The U.S. employment "sag" of the 2000s is widely recognized but poorly …

employer, we analyze the effect of exposure to import competition on earnings and employment of U.S. workers over 1992 through … initial wages, low initial tenure, low attachment to the labor force, and those employed at large firms with low wage levels … adjustment is highly uneven across workers according to their conditions of employment in the pre-shock period. …