status of women. Although historically globalization is not generally linked to the advancement of women, several recent …

. The World Values Survey provided a data framework of global value change, whose quantitative results led members of the … parcel of a larger set of traditional values. With the free available country-wide data from the World Values Survey, we re …/Welzel, 2003, 2003. A frequently asked question is whether “modernization” without “spiritual values” in a globalized world economy …

globalization renders this question extremely topical. Yet, most previous work has looked for political effects of aggregate trade …

for global inequality. We develop and parameterize a two-sector, two-class, world economy model that endogenizes education … in the world distribution of skills, slow-growing urbanization in developing countries and a rebound in income inequality …

rates. Using the World Input-Output Database (WIOD) we employ the proposed indicators to shed new light on changes in cost …

-skill occupations. We estimate the determinants of workers' RTI as a function of technology (computer use), globalization …. Globalization (as measured by sector foreign value-added share) increases RTI in poorer countries but reduces RTI in richer … globalization also important. Technology contributes the most to the differences in RTI among workers in high-skilled occupations …

organizations, scholars and practitioners to increasingly consider remittances as one of the main engines to promote globalization … and growth in the developing world. By transferring home large amounts of money, information, ideas and practices …. Focusing on cases from former socialist countries and around the world, this paper discusses the main debates surrounding the …

, primarily during the 2000s, when the global Gini coefficient dropped nearly 10 points and the earnings share of the world …