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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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World Bank projects and generally find that projects that are potentially politically motivated - such as those granted to … governments holding a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council or an Executive Directorship at the World Bank … Council members with higher short-term debt, however, a negative quality rating is more likely. So we find evidence that World …
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How will international integration affect welfare policies? This paper considers the possibilities of financing public sector activities (public consumption and social security expenses) by general (wage) taxation in an economy which becomes more integrated in international product markets. Even...
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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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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...
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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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