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This paper introduces two composite indices of globalisation. The first is based on the Kearney/Foreign Policy magazine and the second is obtained from principal component analysis. They indicate the level of globalisation and show how globalisation has developed over time for different...
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roles of world prices of skills and country proximity. Our empirical results are consistent with the view that these factors …
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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 …
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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 …
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globalization (1985-2005), there has been some convergence of business cycle fluctuations among the group of industrial economies …
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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 …
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technology, globalization tends to lead to convergence. Moreover, under non-convex technology trade and migration tend to be …
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international transactions into a single measure or index of globalization. The index is an alternative to the simple measure of …
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This paper assesses the employment and earnings trajectories of refugee and family reunion category immigrants in Canada and Sweden using two national level sources of data. The Canadian Immigration Database (IMDB) is a file that links the intake record of post 1979 immigrants with annual...
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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 …
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