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Does the Liberalization of Trade Advance Gender Equality in Schooling and Health?

Schultz, T. Paul - 2011

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...

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Globalization and Strategic Research Investments

Bohnstedt, Anna - 2011

We develop a general equilibrium model of international trade with heterogeneous firms, where countries can invest into basic research to improve their technological potential. These research investments tighten firm selection and raise the average productivity of firms in the market, thereby...

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Global Sourcing of Complex Production Processes

Schwarz, Christian - 2010

We develop a theory of a firm in an environment with incomplete contracts. The firm's headquarter decides on the complexity, the organization, and the global scale of its production process. Specifically, it decides: i) on the mass of symmetric intermediate inputs that are part of the value...

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Globalised Labour Markets? International Rent Sharing Across 47 Countries

Martins, Pedro S. - 2010

We present evidence about the role of rent sharing in fostering the interdependence of labour markets around the world …

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Growth, Colonization, and Institutional Development : In and Out of Africa

Bertocchi, Graziella - 2011

This essay investigates the determinants of the growth performance of Africa. I start by illustrating a broader research agenda which accounts not only for basic economic and demographic factors, but also for the role of history and institutional development. After reporting results from...

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Migration, International Trade and Capital Formation : Cause or Effect?

Felbermayr, Gabriel J. - 2012

In this paper, we provide an overview of the relationship between international migration and international trade as well as capital movements. After taking a brief historical perspective, we first investigate migration flows between two countries in a static, neoclassical context. We allow for...

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Global Pension Systems and Their Reform : Worldwide Drivers, Trends, and Challenges

Holzmann, Robert - 2012

Across the world, pension systems and their reforms are in a constant state of flux driven by shifting objectives …

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Globalization, Institutions, and the Ethnic Divide : Recent Longitudinal Evidence

Wunnava, Phani V. - 2012

This paper investigates the determinants of economic growth emphasizing the role of institutional quality, social fragmentation, and increasing global integration on recent growth experience. Our longitudinal data consists of 103 countries covering the period 1992-2005. We find that democracies...

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Thresholds in the Process of International Financial Integration

Kose, M. Ayhan - 2009

The financial crisis has re-ignited the fierce debate about the merits of financial globalization and its implications for growth, especially for developing countries. The empirical literature has not been able to conclusively establish the presumed growth benefits of financial integration....

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Asabiyya : Re-Interpreting Value Change in Globalized Societies

Tausch, Arno - 2009

. 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 …

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