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Globalization Policies and Israel's Brain Drain
Razin, Assaf - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960698
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Globalization and Global Crises : Rest of the World vs. Israel
Razin, Assaf - 2021
. The paper provides an overview of the new globalization trends in the world and in Israel, with emphasis on the role of …Post WWII globalization forces are facing headwinds in the form of global crises-the “The Great Recession” and the “The … Pandemic Recession”. Israel’s trade and financial globalization, however, is steadily rising. The pandemic-induced slump in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013250932
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Welfare State, Inequality, and Globalization : Role of International-Capital-Flow Direction
Razin, Assaf - 2019
Globalization, in the form of financial flows, which is always advantageous on an aggregative level, typically creates … winners and losers, if left exclusively to market forces. The effects of financial globalization on income inequality depends … on whether the country exports its capital to the rest of the world or imports capital from abroad. In the capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012871939
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International Migration and International Trade
Razin, Assaf; Sadka, Efraim - 2021
This paper surveys key developments in the theory of international migration and international trade, and provides a few stylized facts. International migration, in many important cases, such as cross-country differences in productivity, can be a complement to international flows of commodities....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218419
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The Terms of Trade and Economic Growth in the Periphery 1870-1938
Blattman, Christopher; Hwang, Jason; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2021
The contending fundamental determinants of growth -- institutions, geography and culture --exhibit far more persistence than do the growth rates they are supposed to explain. So, what exogenous shocks might account for the variance around those persistent fundamentals? The terms of trade seems...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013214578
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The Impact of Globalization on Pre-Industrial, Technologically Quiescent Economies
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2012
This paper uses a new pre-1940 Third World data base documenting real wages and relative factor prices to explore their … wages to land rents, on the other hand, declined up to World War I and so did the ratio of wages to GDP per capita. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103885
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The Impact of Globalization on Pre-Industrial, Technologically Quiescent Economies
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2012
This paper uses a new pre-1940 Third World data base documenting real wages and relative factor prices to explore their … wages to land rents, on the other hand, declined up to World War I and so did the ratio of wages to GDP per capita. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112616
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Globalization and the Great Divergence : Terms of Trade Booms and Volatility in the Poor Periphery 1782-1913
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2008
W. Arthur Lewis argued that a new international economic order emerged between 1870 and 1913, and that global terms of trade forces produced rising primary product specialization and de-industrialization in the poor periphery. More recently, modern economists argue that volatility reduces growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012772451
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What Determines Immigration's Impact? Comparing Two Global Centuries
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2006
Can history shed light on the modern debate about immigration%u2019s labor market impact in high wage economies? This paper examines the relationship between migration and capital flows in the age of mass migration before 1914, the so-called first global century. It then assesses the effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779612
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Commodity Price Volatility and World Market Integration Since 1700
Jacks, David S. - 2009
never been constant. Globalization increased poor country specialization in commodities when the world went open after the … of life deep into the 18th century. Does world market integration breed more or less commodity price volatility? The … been associated with much greater commodity price volatility, while world market integration associated with peace and pro …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764828