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Workers without Borders? Culture, Migration and the Political Limits to Globalization
Jain, Dr. Sanjay; Majumdar, Sumon; Mukand, Sharun - 2021
This paper examines the role of cultural factors in driving the politics and shape of migration policy. We show that there exists a broad political failure that results in inefficiently high barriers restricting the import of temporary foreign workers and also admitting an inefficiently large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316248
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Ethnic Favoritism : An Axiom of Politics?
De Luca, Giacomo - 2015
We investigate the prevalence and determinants of ethnic favoritism, i.e., preferential public policies targeted at the political leader's ethnic group. We construct a panel dataset of 2,022 ethnographic regions from 139 countries with annual observations from 1992 to 2012, and use nighttime...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013027085
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Culture, Diversity, and the Welfare State
Gründler, Klaus - 2018
We show that culture and diversity strongly influence welfare systems around the globe. To disentangle culture from institutions, we employ regional instruments as well as data on the prevalence of the pathogen Toxoplasma Gondii, linguistic differences, and the frequency of blood types. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012924453
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Global Sourcing of Complex Production Processes
Schwarz, Christian - 2011
We develop a theory of a firm in an incomplete contracts environment which decides on its complexity, organization, and global scale. Specifically, the firm decides i) how thinly it wants to slice its production process by choosing the mass of symmetric intermediate inputs that are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120903
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Manufacturers and Retailers in the Global Economy
Raff, Horst - 2011
We develop a general-equilibrium model to capture key features of the retailing and of the manufacturing industry in order to understand how these two industries interact and how labor is allocated between them. We show that the observed shift in employment from manufacturing to retailing, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122636
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Financial Integration, Globalization, and Real Activity
De Nicolo, Gianni - 2013
distinct impact of financial integration and globalization on several dimensions of real activity. We find that: financial … financial integration predict better growth prospects; both advances in financial integration and globalization are associated … financial integration and globalization indeed foster countries' growth, and there appears to be no trade-off between these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013091562
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What Drives the Global Land Rush?
Arezki, Rabah - 2013
This paper studies the determinants of foreign land acquisition for large-scale agriculture. To do so, gravity models are estimated using data on bilateral investment relationships, together with newly constructed indicators of agro-ecological suitability in areas with low population density as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092012
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Distance, Globalization, and International Trade
Borchert, Ingo - 2017
For a long time globalization could be seen everywhere but in gravity estimates. We offer evidence how globalization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963770
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Global Engagement and Returns Volatility
Girma, Sourafel - 2016
This paper uses high-frequency data for publicly-listed Japanese manufacturing firms over the period 2000 to 2010 to show that a greater reliance on foreign market sales increases the conditional volatility of firms' stock returns. The two margins of global engagement we consider, namely,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000911
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A Simple Model of Globalization, Schooling and Skill Acquisition
Davidson, Carl - 2013
worse. Globalization impacts educational behavior and labor market outcomes differently as the extent of firms engaged in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075958