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...

In this paper we review of literature and offer historical, empirical and analytical explanation for the interactions between the welfare state and globalization driving forces. Globalization – a widespread contemporaneous phenomenon – generates international tax competition. The consequent...

The exodus of Soviet Jews to Israel in the 1990s was a unique event. The extraordinary experience of Israel, which has received migrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) at the rate of 17 percent of its population, within a short time, is also relevant for the current debate about migration...