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Measurement of globalization and its variations among countries, regions and over time
Bhandari, Amit K.; Heshmati, Almas - 2005
contribution to the overall integration. Finally, we investigate the links between globalization and labor market in India …The process of globalization is an international economic order which has led to the progressive integration of the … technological innovation also provides impetus to the progressive integration of the nations. The elements of globalization include …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267513
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Globalization, brain drain and development
Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2011
high-skill) migration is becoming the dominant pattern of international migration and a major aspect of globalization. We … Indian diaspora in the development of India's IT sector. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of the analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278431
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Employer preferences and social policy: Business and the development of job security regulations in Germany since World War I
Emmenegger, Patrick; Marx, Paul - 2010
This article examines the role of business in the historical development of job security regulations in Germany from their creation in the inter-war period to the dawn of the crisis of the 'German Model' in the 1980s. It contrasts the varieties of capitalism approach, which sees business as...
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Prospective NATO or EU membership and institutional change in transition countries
Belke, Ansgar; Bordon, Ingo G.; Melnykovska, Inna; … - 2009
This paper quantifies the impact of incentives related to potential membership on institutional change as measured by the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI). Based on a panel of 25 transition countries for the period from 1996 to 2008 we show that pre-accession incentives provided by EU and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278016
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Land use rights, market transitions, and labor policy change in China (1980-4)
Chen, Yiu-por - 2012
This paper provides a systematic analysis of the way shifts in property utilization rights in China induced another sequence of institutional changes that led to the rise of rural-urban labor migration from 1980 to 1984, a critical period in the country's market transition. I show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282616
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Causes of changing earnings inequality
Snower, Dennis J. - 1999
This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the U.S. over the past 25 years. Next, it indicates which of these regularities can be explained within the competitive demand-supply framework of analysis and what is left unexplained....
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Immigration Policy in Integrated National Economies
Bauer, Thomas K.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2000
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262379
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Human Capital Investment and Globalization in Extortionary States
Andersson, Fredrik; Konrad, Kai A. - 2001
This paper considers education investment and public education subsidies in closed and open economies with an extortionary government. The extortionary government in a closed economy has incentives to subsidize education in order to overcome a hold-up problem of time consistent taxation, similar...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262447
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Globalization and Human Capital Formation
Andersson, Fredrik; Konrad, Kai A. - 2001
This paper compares education investment in closed and open economies without government and with a benevolent government. The fact that the time consistency problem in taxation can make labor mobility beneficial even if governments are fully benevolent – which is known from other contexts –...
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How do trade and financial integration affect the relationship between growth and volatility?
Kose, M. Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar S.; Terrones, Marco E. - 2006
context of globalization a term typically used to describe the phenomenon of growing international trade and financial …
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