Two prominent features of globalization in recent decades are the remarkable increase in trade and in migratory flows …

What is the role of transport improvements in globalization? We argue that the nineteenth century is the ideal testing …

in approximately 4000 markets per country. We then move from groundnuts to globalization by building an exact TFP index …

Growth in international trade and globalization has been correlated in nearly all countries with a worsening of the … globalization in France has been a huge growth in vertical specialization -- the completion of the different production stages of a … good in different countries. By shifting relative labor demand across countries, globalization of this form could explain …

In this paper, we provide a case study of the impact of globalization on income inequality using data across Chinese … demonstrate a greater decline in urban-rural income inequality. Thus, globalization has helped to reduce, rather than increase …

Measured by the ratio of trade to output, the period 1870 1913 marked the birth of the first era of trade globalization …

What drives globalization today and in the past? We employ a new micro-founded measure of bilateral trade costs based …

the links between them. In doing so, it distinguishes between (a) the different dimensions of globalization; and (b …) between-country and within-country inequality. Theory suggests that globalization will have very different implications for … within-country inequality, depending on the dimension of globalization involved (e.g. trade versus factor flows), on the …