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Two prominent features of globalization in recent decades are the remarkable increase in trade and in migratory flows …
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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...
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student flows, business travel, and tourism. Despite its peripheral status in debates over globalization, the movement of …
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The aim of the paper is to see whether individuals' attitudes towards globalization are consistent with the predictions …-skilled is associated with more pro-globalization attitudes in rich countries; while in some of the very poorest countries in the … sample being high-skilled has a negative (if statistically insignificant) impact on pro-globalization sentiment. More …
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This paper directs attention at the globalization of knowledge and knowledge creation as the fundamental global driver … of economic outcomes in today's information economy. It documents the globalization of knowledge and spread of scientific … the key component in productivity and growth, its spread and creation is the one ring of globalization that rules the more …
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primary schooling and literacy revolution in Europe. Under what conditions would we expect the same responses to globalization … globalization should pay more attention to history …
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The rules governing trade and capital flows have been at the center of controversy as globalization has proceeded. One … market. Changes in trade policy have had modest impacts on labour market. Other aspects of globalization -- immigration …
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The world has seen two globalization booms over the past two centuries, and one bust. The first global century ended … globalization on commodity price structure, the causes of protection, the impact of world migration on poverty eradication, and the …
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This paper tests the differential effects of the generosity of the welfare state under free migration and under policy-controlled migration, distinguishing between source developing and developed countries. We utilize free-movement within the EU to examine the free migration regime and compare...
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Oates reminds us that tax competition among localities in the presence of capital mobility, may lead to inefficiently low tax rates (and benefits). In contrast, the Tiebout paradigm suggests that tax competition yields an efficient outcome, so that there are no gains from tax coordination. This...
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