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with comparative disadvantages in trade relative to the United States in machinery industries. In resource …-intensive industries, however, it moves to countries with comparative advantages in trade relative to the United States. The difference …
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We discuss recent empirical research on how globalization has affected income inequality in developing countries. We begin with a discussion of conceptual issues regarding the measurement of globalization and inequality. Next, we present empirical evidence on the evolution of globalization and...
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We review the empirical evidence on the relationship between Trade Liberalization, Inequality, and Poverty based on the … analysis of micro data from several developing countries that underwent significant trade reforms in recent years. Despite many … studies' has established certain patterns that seem common across countries and trade liberalization episodes, and may hence …
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We explore the relationship between greater exposure to trade (as measured by openness) and child labor in a cross … countries that trade more have less child labor. At the cross-country means, the data suggest an openness elasticity of child …. When we control for the endogeneity of trade and for cross-country income differences, the openness elasticity of child …
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Although many developing countries have experienced growing income inequality and an increase in the relative demand for skilled workers during the 1980s, the sources of this trend remain a puzzle. This paper examines whether investment and adoption of skill-biased technology have contributed to...
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.S. foreign affiliates in developing countries of a broad service sector including trade and finance rose from 6% in 1977 to 18 …
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Among developing countries, there was no gross relationship between real income per capita in 1960 and subsequent growth in per capita income. However, once other significant influences, such as education, changes in labor force participation rates, inflows of foreign investment, price...
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from home to export markets in response to the debt crisis of the early 1980s. The U.S. affiliates in heavily indebted …
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Multinational firms have played an important role in leading the developing countries into world markets. Multinationals from the United States, Japan and Sweden have all increased their shares of LDC exports of manufactures since the mid-1960s or mid-1970s. Their importance was particularly...
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also discusses perceptions about international trade in over 40 countries at different levels of development, including …This paper assesses the current state of evidence on how international trade shapes inequality and poverty through its … perceptions on trade's overall benefits for the economy, trade's effect on the livelihood of workers through wages and jobs, and …
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