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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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world shows that the long-term impact of a China GDP shock on the typical Latin American economy has increased by three … associated with a deceleration in China's economic growth in the future for both Latin America and the rest of the world economy …. The evidence reported also suggests that the emergence of China as an important source of world growth might be the driver …
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Defining the 'global middle class' as being neither poor nor rich in the developed world, we estimate the size of the … global middle class in China and 33 other countries and analyze China's expanding middle class in international perspective …. China's global middle class has grown rapidly and has been catching up with that in developed countries. By 2018 China …
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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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This article analyses IMF estimates of economic growth in 180 countries (IMF, 2009), and inks the results to the Re-orient approach, put forward by Frank, 1998. With global economic gravitation shifting to the Indian Ocean/Pacific region, the article also analyses the role of MNC (foreign...
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We investigate the impacts of trade liberalization on household behaviors and outcomes in urban China, exploiting …
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We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and "the East" – China and Eastern Europe … and export exposure. We find that the rise of "the East" in the world economy caused substantial job losses in German …
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structure and evolution of gender differentials in China by simultaneously estimating demand-side wage and productivity outcomes …
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. 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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to the divisive 2016 U.S. presidential election. Exploiting the exogenous component of rising import competition by China …
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