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Proponents of globalization often conclude that its critics are ignorant or self-motivated. In doing so, they have … missed a valuable opportunity to discover both how best to communicate the benefits of globalization, and how to improve on … the current model of globalization. This paper examines the values, beliefs and facts that lead critics to the view that …
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's decade of globalization in the 1990's. I focus the analysis on men born in states with either high-exposure or low …-exposure to globalization, as measured by the share of foreign direct investment, imports, or export assembly in state GDP …-exposure states by 10% and the incidence of wage poverty (the fraction of wage earners whose labor income would not sustain a family …
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globalization on commodity price structure, the causes of protection, the impact of world migration on poverty eradication, and the …The world has seen two globalization booms over the past two centuries, and one bust. The first global century ended …
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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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We identify the causal effect of trade-integration with China and Eastern Europe on voting in Germany from 1987 to 2009. Looking at the entire political spectrum, we find that only extreme-right parties respond significantly to trade integration. Their vote share increases with import...
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financial globalization. Poor governance has implications for corporate finance as well as for macroeconomics. I show that poor …
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World Distribution of Income and estimate poverty rates, poverty counts and various measures of income inequality and … welfare. Using the official $1/day line, we estimate that world poverty rates have fallen by 80% from 0.268 in 1970 to 0 … of the global poverty count in 2006 are much smaller than found by other researchers. We also find similar reductions in …
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impact of the current pandemic on income and poverty to inform the targeting of resources to those most affected and assess … the success of current efforts. We construct new measures of the income distribution and poverty with a lag of only a few …, government policy effectively countered its effects on incomes, leading poverty to fall and low percentiles of income to rise …
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Studies of inequality often ignore resource allocation within the household. In doing so they miss an important element of the distribution of welfare that can vary dramatically depending on overall environmental and economic factors. Thus, measures of inequality that ignore intra household...
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It is sometimes argued that poorer people choose to work less, implying less welfare inequality than suggested by observed incomes. Social policies have also acknowledged that efforts differ, and that people respond to incentives. Prevailing measures of inequality (in outcomes or opportunities)...
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