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Measurement of globalization and its variations among countries, regions and over time

Bhandari, Amit Kumar (contributor); … - 2005

heterogeneity in the degree of globalization over time and across countries and regions of the World, as well as within countries …The process of globalization is an international economic order which has led to the progressive integration of the … world economy through the pulling the barrier of trade and greater mobility of factors of production. In addition the …

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Principles and practicalities for measuring child poverty in the rich countries

Corak, Miles (contributor) - 2005

This paper has three objectives. The first is to discuss the major issues involved in defining and measuring child poverty. The choices that must be made are clarified, and a set of six principles to serve as a guide for public policy are stated. The second objective is to take stock of child...

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Migration, international trade and capital formation : cause or effect?

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Grossmann, Volker; Kohler, Wilhelm - 2012

technology, globalization tends to lead to convergence. Moreover, under non-convex technology trade and migration tend to be …-enhancing potential. -- migration ; international trade ; capital movements ; capital formation ; globalization …

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Does globalisation increase child labour?

Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio Camillo; Guarcello, Lorenzo - 2002

There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant effect on child labour. Consistently with the theory, a...

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How does globalization affect the synchronization of business cycles?

Kose, M. Ayhan (contributor); Prasad, Eswar S. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Hit by the silk road : how wage coordination in Europe mitigates the China shock

Barth, Erling; Finseraas, Henning; Kjelsrud, Anders; … - 2020

. Countries with national wage coordination can thus stabilize overall employment against fluctuations and shocks in the world … economy. We test this theory by exploring within-country variation in exposure to competition from China in 13 European … exposure from China experienced a marked fall in employment, while countries with wage-coordination experienced no such …

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Geographic proximity, trade and international conflict/cooperation

Robst, John (contributor); Polachek, Solomon W. (contributor) - 2006

This paper examines the interactive effect of distance and trade on international conflict and cooperation. The effect of geographic distance depends on trade, while the effect of trade varies with geographic distance. Trade reduces conflict to a greater extent when dyads are geographically...

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Isolating the network effect of immigrants on trade

Aleksynska, Mariya; Peri, Giovanni - 2012

Within the migration-trade nexus literature, this paper proposes a more carefully defined measure of migration business networks, and quantifies its impact on bilateral trade. Using cross-sectional data and controlling for the overall bilateral stock of migrants, the share of migrants employed...

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An injury to one is an injury to all : terrorism's spillover effects on bilateral trade

Pham, Cong S.; Doucouliagos, Chris - 2017

In this paper we investigate whether the effects of terrorism in one country spillover to affect trade in neighboring nations. Using a sample of more than 160 countries from 1976 to 2014, we report robust evidence that terrorist attacks in a nation's contiguous neighbors significantly reduce...

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Social stability challenged: pandemics, inequality and policy responses

Perugini, Cristiano; Vladisavljević, Marko - 2020

The public health measures implemented by governments to limit the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic will produce significant economic consequences that are likely to exacerbate social and economic inequalities. In this paper we provide a framework to analyse how income inequality, besides other...

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