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This paper addresses the interactions between globalization, the quality of democracy, and economic convergence using … and globalization. To reflect context, as defined by space (geography) and time (history), we control for the distance to … and globalization put forward by Eichengreen and Leblang (2008) for the period 1870-2000. Focusing on the more recent wave …
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labor regulation of partners because intraindustry trade was important. The New World exported less differentiated products …
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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...
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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 …
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Recent research in international economic history has opened up new lines of enquiry on the origins of globalization …
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world commodity and factor markets, history offers an unambiguous positive correlation between globalization and convergence … years were also ones of economic autarky and 'de-globalization', while the rest were ones of increasing globalization in …. But is the correlation spurious? When the pre-World War I years are examined in detail, the correlation turns out to be …
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history and economic theory both provide ample grounds for anticipating that advanced stages of economic globalization would … different reactions are related to the relative salience of different types of globalization shocks …
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We document how explicit employer requests for applicants of a particular gender enter the recruitment process on a Chinese job board. Overall, we find that 19 out of 20 callbacks to jobs requesting a particular gender are of the requested gender. Mostly, this is because application pools to...
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The paper surveys three economic history literatures that can speak to contemporary challenges to globalization: the … literature on the anti-globalization backlash of the nineteenth century, focused largely on trade and migration; the literature …
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in capital inflows during an era of intensified globalization. We find that higher levels of original sin (hard currency …
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