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. The paper provides an overview of the new globalization trends in the world and in Israel, with emphasis on the role of …Post WWII globalization forces are facing headwinds in the form of global crises-the “The Great Recession” and the “The … Pandemic Recession”. Israel’s trade and financial globalization, however, is steadily rising. The pandemic-induced slump in …
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Globalization, in the form of financial flows, which is always advantageous on an aggregative level, typically creates … winners and losers, if left exclusively to market forces. The effects of financial globalization on income inequality depends … on whether the country exports its capital to the rest of the world or imports capital from abroad. In the capital …
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We introduce firm and worker heterogeneity into a model of innovation-driven endogenous growth. Individuals who differ in ability sort into either a research sector or a manufacturing sector that produces differentiated goods. Each research project generates a new variety of the differentiated...
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This paper surveys key developments in the theory of international migration and international trade, and provides a few stylized facts. International migration, in many important cases, such as cross-country differences in productivity, can be a complement to international flows of commodities....
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We develop a simple model of international trade with heterogeneous firms that is consistent with a number of stylized features of the data. In particular, the model predicts positive as well as zero trade flows across pairs of countries, and it allows the number of exporting firms to vary...
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Globalization has been blamed for rising inequality in rich and poor countries. Yet the views of many protagonists in … empirical literature on the relationship between globalization and wage inequality. While the initial analysis that started in … cumulative effect has been modest, and that globalization does not explain the preponderance of the rise in wage inequality …
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Globalization, in the form of financial flows, which is always advantageous on an aggregative level, typically creates … policies, governed by a majority of the population, spreads the globalization's gains from trade to all income groups, even … those who are low skilled and have small capital endowments. Therefore, financial globalization of a welfare-state economy …
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Whether governments clash in trade disputes or negotiate over trade agreements, their actions in the international arena reflect political conditions back home. Previous studies of cooperative and noncooperative trade relations have focused on governments that are immune from political pressures...
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While neoclassical theory emphasizes the impact of trade on wage inequality between occupations and sectors, more recent theories of firm heterogeneity point to the impact of trade on wage dispersion within occupations and sectors. Using linked employer-employee data for Brazil, we show that...
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