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This paper makes two methodological contributions. First, it proposes a framework to decompose total production activities at the country, sector, or country-sector level, to different types, depending on whether they are for pure domestic demand, traditional international trade, simple GVC...
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We develop a property-rights model of the firm in which production entails a continuum of uniquely sequenced stages. In each stage, a final-good producer contracts with a distinct supplier for the procurement of a customized stage-specific component. Our model yields a sharp characterization for...
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Guided by a simple theory of task assignment and time allocation, we investigate the long run response to national differences in tax rates on labor income, payrolls and consumption. The theory implies that higher tax rates reduce work time in the market sector, increase the size of the shadow...
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which financial globalization can be a substitute for reforms of domestic financial system. Inefficient financial system and … investment. While financial globalization always improves the welfare of a developed country with a good financial system, its … the world than many developing countries. A noteworthy feature of this theory is that financial and property rights …
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student flows, business travel, and tourism. Despite its peripheral status in debates over globalization, the movement of …, the dispersion of pay for similarly skilled workers around the world exceeds the dispersion of the prices of goods and …
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about 4.5% of world output in 1970 to over 7% in 1995. The importance of internationalized output fell substantially in … 1995. Outside of petroleum and manufacturing, internationalized production was of little importance. For the world as a …
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for highly trained and skilled scientists and engineers from the world over. Though this is likely to persist for some …
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globalization (stock of external assets and liabilities). This dominates the effect of an increase in trade globalization (exports … with 14 shocks we show that the theoretical impact of financial and trade globalization on the correlation between capital …
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Many of the exports of developing countries are channeled through global value chains (GVCs), which also act as conduits for new technologies. However, new capabilities and productive employment remain limited so far to a tiny sliver of globally integrated firms. GVCs and new technologies...
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Globalization has made it possible for labor in developing countries to augment labor in the developed world, without … world's effective labor supply, triggered by geo-political events and technological innovations, coupled with the inability …
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