This study explores the effects of globalization on gender inequality. Specifically, we depict that, in terms of … capital market integration, globalization alters the gender gap in wage rates through changes in labor demand for capital …-intensive sectors. Consequently, globalization leads to opposite effects on the couple's labor supply and fertility decisions in capital …

The financial crisis has re-ignited the fierce debate about the merits of financial globalization and its implications …

process of financial globalization. Our central findings indicate that policies promoting financial sector development …, institutional quality and trade openness appear to help developing countries derive the benefits of globalization. Similarly, sound … unavoidable tensions inherent in evaluating the risks and benefits associated with financial globalization. In light of these …

. The World Values Survey provided a data framework of global value change, whose quantitative results led Barro (2004) to … question is whether "modernization" without "spiritual values" in a globalized world economy and world society possible in the … economic growth in the current world crisis is far more connected with these dimensions. We conclude that not a society based …

significant impediment to growth but religious and linguistic heterogeneity have not. Further, while economic globalization has … more from global integration. This suggests the importance of globalization in redressing the detrimental impact of ethnic … ; property rights ; ethnic heterogeneity ; globalization …

Defining the 'global middle class' as being neither poor nor rich in the developed world, we estimate the size of the …