While the impact of globalization on income inequality has received a lot of attention, little is known about its … firms and non-exporters. By the virtue of being exposed to higher competition, exporters require greater commitment and … men, exporters will statistically discriminate against female employees and will exhibit a higher GWG than non-exporters …

dimensions: Involuntary unemployment and income inequality between entrepreneurs and workers increase, and so does inequality …

We show that in a Ricardo-Viner-type trade model with unemployment due to search and matching the productivity effect …

challenges the two basic functions of the welfare state, redistribution and social insurance when private unemployment insurance … markets are missing. The main results are: (i) outsourcing raises unemployment and labor income risk of unskilled workers; (ii … welfare optimal redistribution and unemployment insurance policies …

the capital intensive export sectors. The overreactions cause unemployment, sluggish growth, a current account surplus and …

the wages for skilled and unskilled workers, leading to involuntary unemployment of unskilled workers in equilibrium … by lower wage differentials as well as higher unemployment. Allowing for endogenous skill formation in both countries …, the effects of a globalization shock – modelled as the entry of newly industrializing countries into the trading world …

This paper constructs a simple theoretical model to study the implications of globalization for inequality and … redistribution. It shows that when globalization increases inequality, a policymaker interested in maximizing the sum of welfares of … all agents increases redistribution. Empirically, the paper examines the effects of globalization on inequality and …

This paper re-examines the link between globalization and income inequality. We use data for 140 countries over the … period 1970-2014 and employ an IV approach to deal with the endogeneity of globalization measures. We find that the link … between globalization and income inequality differs across different groups of countries. There is a robust positive …