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Prasad, Eswar S.; Rajan, Raghuram Govind; Subramanian, … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We document the recent phenomenon of uphill flows of capital from nonindustrial toindustrial countries and analyze whether this pattern of capital flows has hurt growth innonindustrial economies that export capital. Surprisingly, we find that there is a positivecorrelation between current...

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Measuring Globalization

Andersen, Torben M.; Herbertsson, Tryggvi Thor - 2003

international transactions into a single measure or index of globalization. The index is an alternative to the simple measure of …

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Emigration from the UK, 1870-1913 and 1950-1998

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2003

The international labour market has not been ?globalised? to the same degree over the last 40 years as have international markets for goods and capital. Immigration policies in developed economies clearly hinder the mobility of labour. But how much difference does it actually make? This paper...

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The Welfare Effects of Globalization with Labor Market Regulation

Palokangas, Tapio K. - 2015

I examine how globalization affects wages and welfare in a general equilibrium model of international trade with partly … oligopolistic markets. Globalization is modeled as reducing trade costs or opening up shielded sectors to trade. There is a national …

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Heterogeneous Immigrants and Foreign Direct Investment: The Role of Language Skills

Lücke, Matthias; Stöhr, Tobias - 2015

We investigate the interplay of language skills and immigrant stocks in determining bilateral FDI out-stocks of OECD reporting countries. Applying a Poisson panel estimator to 2004-2011 data, we find a robust positive effect of bilateral immigrants on bilateral FDI – provided that residents of...

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The Impact of Globalization and Technology Transfer on Manufacturing Employment and Skills in Ethiopia

Haile, Getinet Astatike; Srour, Ilina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2013

countries (LDCs) embarking on globalization, which enhances the prospect of direct technological imports or embodied … played by trade and FDI in determining employment. The empirical results obtained lend support to globalization having a …

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Structural Change and Innovation as Exit Strategies from the Middle Income Trap

Vivarelli, Marco - 2014

This paper is intended to provide an updated discussion on a series of issues that the relevant literature suggests to be crucial in dealing with the challenges a middle income country may encounter in its attempts to further catch-up a higher income status. In particular, the conventional...

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Globalization, Structural Change and Innovation in Emerging Economies: The Impact on Employment and Skills

Vivarelli, Marco - 2018

This paper aims to provide a critical overview of the drivers that the relevant theoretical and empirical literature suggests being crucial in dealing with the challenges an emerging country may encounter in its attempts to further catch-up a higher income status, with a particular focus devoted...

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Capital Market Integration and Gender Inequality

Komura, Mizuki; Ogawa, Hikaru - 2018

This study explores the effects of globalization on gender inequality. Specifically, we depict that, in terms of … capital market integration, globalization alters the gender gap in wage rates through changes in labor demand for capital …-intensive sectors. Consequently, globalization leads to opposite effects on the couple's labor supply and fertility decisions in capital …

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The Impact of Labor Market Reforms on Capital Flows, Wages and Unemployment

Beissinger, Thomas - 2001

The paper contributes to the globalization debate by scrutinizing the international spillover effects which are …

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