heterogeneity in the degree of globalization over time and across countries and regions of the World, as well as within countries …The process of globalization is an international economic order which has led to the progressive integration of the … world economy through the pulling the barrier of trade and greater mobility of factors of production. In addition the …

recent decades as a result of increased globalization of knowledge, technologies and economies. In particular I look at the … development in a number area where similar trends are observed. The areas studied include globalization, in-sourcing and …

globalization (1985-2005), there has been some convergence of business cycle fluctuations among the group of industrial economies …

significant impediment to growth but religious and linguistic heterogeneity have not. Further, while economic globalization has … more from global integration. This suggests the importance of globalization in redressing the detrimental impact of ethnic …

technology, globalization tends to lead to convergence. Moreover, under non-convex technology trade and migration tend to be …

Scottish social policy. Families are major producers of skills, and a successful policy needs to promote effective families and … malleable at later ages. This has important implications for the design of policy. The gaps in skills and abilities open up …

activities, rendering conclusions regarding well-being policy less straightforward. …

offer policy implications for alleviating differences between countries in international telecommunications development. …It has traditionally been argued that the development of telecommunications infrastructure is dependent on the quality … telecommunications services and find it to be much smaller in cellular telephony than in the others. By evaluating the importance of …

Migration is an unavoidable aspect of globalization. While full flexibility is politically unfeasible, the paper argues … for regulated openness. Migration in the age of globalization should be judged according to the labor market needs of the …