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We build a heterogeneous-firms model with firm-specific wages and credit frictions to study the role of financial development for inequality in the global economy. If there are many small firms, better access to external funds reduces wage inequality and unemployment. In contrast, if there are...
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We study the long-term economic legacy of highly-skilled minorities a century after their wholesale expulsion. Using mass expulsions of Armenian and Greek communities of the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century as a unique natural experiment of history, we show that districts with greater...
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School choice research mostly focuses on academic outcomes. Policymakers increasingly view entrepreneurial traits as a non-cognitive outcome important for economic growth. We use international PISA-2006 student-level data to estimate the effect of private-school competition on students'...
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We reassess the driving forces behind the recent decline of corporate tax rates in Europe. Using data for up to 32 countries from 1983 to 2006, we analyze the role of economic and financial openness as well as tax competition while allowing for dynamic adjustment to shocks and period-specific as...
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This paper investigates the long-run economic relationship between health care expenditure and income in the world … using data on 167 countries over the period 1995-2012, collected from the World Bank data set. The analysis is carried using …
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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 …
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This study examines the economic globalization and the shadow economy nexus in Egypt. Using time series data from 1976 … economic globalization is negative and statistically significant for the first three years following the shock. This finding is … obtained by controlling for several intermediary channels in globalization-shadow economy nexus such as education, government …
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Greater international economic interconnectedness over recent decades has been changing inflation dynamics. This paper presents evidence that the expansion of global value chains (GVCs), ie cross-border trade in intermediate goods and services, is an important channel through which global...
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For a long time globalization could be seen everywhere but in gravity estimates. We offer evidence how globalization …
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The US labour market has experienced a remarkable polarization in the 1980s and 1990s. Moreover, recent empirical work has documented a sharp increase in the wealth to income ratio in that period. Contemporary to these inequality trends, the US faced a fast technological catch-up as European...
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