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The Geography of Trade and Technology Shocks in the United States

Autor, David H. - 2015

This paper explores the geographic overlap of trade and technology shocks across local labor markets in the United States. Regional exposure to technological change, as measured by specialization in routine task-intensive production and clerical occupations, is largely uncorrelated with regional...

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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 …

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Industrialization Under Medieval Conditions? Global Development after Covid-19

Naudé, Wim - 2021

of the medieval world. It comes at a time when innovation had already been stagnating under guild-like corporate … industrial revolution (4IR) to a premature end. Hence the post-COVID-19 world may be left with trade as the only engine for … industrialization for the foreseeable future. If the global community fails to fix the multilateral trade system, the world may start to …

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Trade, Wages, and Collective Bargaining : Evidence from France

Carluccio, Juan - 2015

-level trade flows with firm-specific instrumental variables based on world demand and supply shocks. Both export and offshoring …

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IC Technology and Learning : An Impact Evaluation of Cl ssi2.0

Checchi, Daniele - 2015

In this paper we present a counterfactual evaluation of the effect of ICT resources at school on student achievements conducted in Italy. In 2009 156 classes at 6th grade were endowed with additional resources earmarked for purchasing ICT equipments only. By selecting an equivalent number of...

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Institutions and Economic Performance : What Can Be Explained?

Commander, Simon John - 2010

Institutions are now widely believed to be important in explaining performance. In this paper, we analyze whether commonly used measures of institutions have any significant, measurable impact on performance, whether of countries or firms. We look at three 'levels' of institutions and associated...

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Impact of Duration of Primary Education on School Outcomes : A Cross-Country Analysis

Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2013

Using panel data for non-OECD countries covering the period 1970-2012, this paper analyzes the impact of the duration of primary education on school enrollment, drop-outs and completion rates. The empirical results show that for children in elementary school one additional grade of primary...

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Six-Country Survey on Covid-19

Belot, Michele - 2020

This paper presents a new data set collected on representative samples across 6 countries: China, South Korea, Japan, Italy, the UK and the four largest states in the US. The information collected relates to work and living situations, income, behavior (such as social-distancing, hand-washing...

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The Covid-19 Crisis and Telework : A Research Survey on Experiences, Expectations and Hopes

Baert, Stijn - 2020

While a considerable number of employees across the globe are being forced to work from home due to the COVID-19 crisis, it is a guessing game as to how they are experiencing this current surge in telework. Therefore, we examined employee perceptions of telework on various life and career...

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Policies in Hard Times : Assessing the Impact of Financial Crises on Structural Reforms

Gokmen, Gunes - 2020

It is commonly argued that crises open up a window of opportunity to implement policies that otherwise would not have the necessary political backing. The argument goes that the political cost of deep reforms declines as crises unravel structural problems that need to be urgently rectified and...

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