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Good Mine, Bad Mine : Natural Resource Heterogeneity and Dutch Disease in Indonesia
Pelzl, Paul - 2019
We analyse the local effect of exogenous shocks to the value of mineral deposits at the district level in Indonesia …
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Shift working and trade in labor services with time zone differences
Kikuchi, Toru; Van Long, Ngo - 2011
Using a two-factor (labor and capital), two-good (shift-working and non shiftworking commodities) model with two countries (Home and Foreign) which are located in different time zones, we highlight the impact of trade in labor services (via communication networks) on the comparative advantage of...
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ICT Adoption in Micro and Small Firms: Can Internet Access Improve Labor Productivity?
Viollaz, Mariana - 2017
This paper analyzes the impact of internet adoption on labor productivity in Peruvian micro and small manufacturing … firms over the period 2011-2013. Instrumental variables estimates show that internet adoption: (i) increases firms’ labor …
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Incentive contracts and efficient unemployment benefits
Demougin, Dominique M.; Helm, Carsten - 2009
Several European countries have reformed their labor market institutions. Incentive effects of unemployment benefits have been an important aspect of these reforms. We analyze this issue in a principal-agent model, focusing on unemployment levels and labor productivity. In our model, a higher...
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International trade, union wage premia, and welfare in general equilibrium
Kreickemeier, Udo; Meland, Frode - 2011
We study how two distinct forms of globalisation, trade cost reductions and opening up of trade in previously shielded … equilibrium (GOLE) with partly unionised labour markets. We find that both forms of globalisation increase union coverage, and … aggregate welfare are affected differently by the two types of globalisation. Trade cost reductions in open sectors always lead …
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Global Taxation and National Welfare States
Jha, Priyaranjan; Mukherjee, Rahul - 2023
This paper studies the effects of globalization on the ability of governments to generate tax revenues for the financing of national welfare states. In this context, it summarizes the theoretical predictions of various economic models of tax competition between countries and discusses the role...
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Economic Globalisation and Africa's Quest for Greener and More Inclusive Growth : The Missing Link
Ofori, Isaac K; Freytag, Andreas; Asongu, Simplice A. - 2023
This study examines the contingency and threshold effects of economic freedom in the economic globalisation (EG) and … globalisation components, we find that the IGG-impeding net effect of the latter is rather striking. Third evidence from our … improve Africa’s economic architecture level, the envisaged IGG gains of economic globalisation might prove elusive …
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How Far Goods Travel : Global Transport and Supply Chains from 1965-2020
Ganapati, Sharat; Wong, Woan Foong - 2023
This paper considers the evolution of global transportation usage over the past half century and its implications for supply chains. Transportation usage per unit of real output has more than doubled as costs decreased by a third. Participation of emerging economies in world trade and...
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Globalization in the Time of COVID-19
Sforza, Alessandro - 2020
The economic effects of a pandemic crucially depend on the extend to which countries are connected in global production networks. In this paper we incorporate production barriers induced by COVID-19 shock into a Ricardian model with sectoral linkages, trade in intermediate goods and sectoral...
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Globalization, Gender, and the Family
Keller, Wolfgang - 2020
This paper shows that in the presence of labor market shocks, child-bearing and child-rearing have far-reaching implications for gender inequality, household specialization and family structure. Using population register data on all births, marriages, and divorces together with employer-employee...
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