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On trade policy preference and offshoring ties
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; … - 2022
This paper unpacks the role of the domestic content of imports as a novel source of policy interdependence along the global supply chain. We show how a rise in local contents embodied in imports can skew national trade policy preferences, and pull upstream and downstream countries in asymmetric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013471205
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Does the liberalization of trade advance gender equality in schooling and health?
Schultz, T. Paul (contributor) - 2006
This paper assesses the empirical relationship between the liberalization of international trade and the economic status of women. Although historically globalization is not generally linked to the advancement of women, several recent country studies find export led growth in middle and low...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003392246
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A dual policy paradox : why have trade and immigration policies always differed in labor-scarce economies?
Hatton, Timothy J. (contributor);  … - 2006
Today's labor-scarce economies have open trade and closed immigration policies, while a century ago they had just the opposite, open immigration and closed trade policies. Why the inverse policy correlation, and why has it persisted for almost two centuries? This paper seeks answers to this dual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003328062
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Institutions and development : the interaction between trade regime and political system
Falkinger, Josef (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002182071
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Labor market regulation, international trade and footloose capital
Palokangas, Tapio K. - 2017
I examine the effects of globalization in countries where the employed workers support the unemployed and the governments control wages by regulating the workers' relative bargaining power. I use a general oligopolistic equilibrium model of two integrated countries with two inputs: labor and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596113
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Trade policy uncertainty, offshoring, and the environment : evidence from US manufacturing establishments
Choi, Jaerim; Hyun, Jay; Kim, Gueyon; Park, Ziho - 2023
We study long-run environmental impacts of trade liberalization on US manufacturing by exploiting a plausibly exogenous reduction in US trade policy uncertainty: the conferral of Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) to China. Using detailed data on establishment-level pollution emissions and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013540780
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Want freedom, will travel : emigrant self-selection according to institutional quality
Naghsh Nejad, Maryam; Young, Andrew T. - 2015
We investigate emigrant self-selection according to institutional quality using up to 3,566 observations on bilateral migration flows from 77 countries over the 1990-2000 period. We relate these flows to differences in political and economic institutions. We improve and expand upon previous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317631
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Democracy, dictatorship and the cultural transmission of political values
Ticchi, Davide; Verdier, Thierry; Vindigni, Andrea - 2013
individual commitment across citizens to defend democracy against a potential military coup, and it is an endogenous state … and the state. Parents invest resources in order to transmit their own political values (commitment to democracy) to their … between political regimes and political culture diffusion. Consolidated democracy emerges when sufficiently many people are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009755330
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The political U : new evidence on democracy and income
Campos, Nauro; Coricelli, Fabrizio; Frigerio, Marco - 2022
This paper throws new light on the relationship between income and democracy. Using data for 162 countries over 1960 … support. These findings are robust to, among others, using night-lights instead of GDP, different democracy measures and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013412764
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Are all democracies equally good? : The role of interactions between political environment and inequality for rule of law
Sunde, Uwe (contributor); Cervellati, Matteo (contributor);  … - 2007
Using cross-country data, we find evidence for a significant negative interaction effect between democracy and … inequality in determining the quality of growth-promoting institutions like rule of law. Democracy is associated with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003539348