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Fisman, Raymond J. - 2014

reaction to adverse shocks to Sino-Japanese relations in 2005 and 2010. Japanese companies with high China exposure suffer …

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International Migration and Human Rights

Hanson, Gordon H. - 2010

Freedom of movement is considered a basic human right by the majority of countries of the world. As defined in practice, it encompasses the right to move internally within a country, the right to move abroad, and the right to return from abroad. It does not include the right of an individual...

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Constitutional Rights and Education : An International Comparative Study

Edwards, Sebastian - 2014

We investigate whether the inclusion of social rights in political constitutions affects social performance. More specifically, we analyze whether including the right to education in the constitution has been related to better "educational outcomes." We rely on data for 61 countries that...

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Civil Liberties in Times of Crisis

Alsan, Marcella; Braghieri, Luca; Eichmeyer, Sarah; … - 2021

approximately 550,000 responses across 15 countries, including China and the United States, during many months of the COVID-19 …

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Government Distortion in Independently Owned Media : Evidence from U.S. Cold War News Coverage of Human Rights

Qian, Nancy - 2010

This paper investigates the extent to which strategic objectives of the U.S. government influenced news coverage during the Cold War. We establish two relationships: 1) strategic objectives of the U.S. government cause the State Department to under-report human rights violations of strategic...

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White Hats or Don Quixotes? Human Rights Vigilantes in the Global Economy

Elliott, Kimberly Ann; Freeman, Richard B. - 2021

With the continuing expansion of global economic integration, labor standards in developing countries have become a hot button issue. One result has been a proliferation of efforts to use the market to put pressure directly on multinational corporations to improve wages and working conditions in...

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Long-Term Barriers to the International Diffusion of Innovations

Spolaore, Enrico - 2012

We document an empirical relationship between the cross-country adoption of technologies and the degree of long-term historical relatedness between human populations. Historical relatedness is measured using genetic distance, a measure of the time since two populations' last common ancestors. We...

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Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade During the Cold War

Berger, Daniel - 2010

We exploit the recent declassification of CIA documents and examine whether there is evidence of US power being used to influence countries' decisions regarding international trade. We measure US influence using a newly constructed annual panel of CIA interventions aimed at installing and...

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Trade Induced Technical Change? The Impact of Chinese Imports on Innovation, it and Productivity

Bloom, Nicholas - 2015

-specific quotas following China's entry into the World Trade Organization. Chinese import competition had two effects: first, it led …

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Will China Eat Our Lunch or Take Us Out to Dinner? Simulating the Transition Paths of the U.S., EU, Japan, and China

Fehr, Hans - 2009

, and economic transition paths of China, Japan, the U.S., and the EU. Each of these countries/regions is entering a period … of rapid and significant aging requiring major fiscal adjustments.In previous studies that excluded China we predicted …, reducing real wages per unit of human capital. Adding China to the model dramatically alters this prediction. Even though China …

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