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Recent theoretical analysis suggests that a reduction in the cost of exporting increases the degree of assortative matching between workers and firms in export-oriented industries. Changes that reduce the cost of imports have an ambiguous impact on matching. We combine detailed Swedish matched...
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Using World Bank data on institutional quality and the KOF Globalization Index, we examine over 100 countries from 1992 … to 2010 to analyze the relationship between economic and social globalization and six measures of institutional quality …. Theoretically, the incentives of elites to respond to globalization by improving institutions should differ between low-income and …
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strengthening the indigenous innovation capacity of domestic actors and, to an increasing extent, to the process of globalization of … that the growing importance of China in the globalization of R&D is more than a ‘flash-in-the-pan’. On one hand, China is …
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The process of globalization encompasses economic and financial integration. Abolition of capital controls and …
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Tolerance – respecting those who are different – is arguably of particular importance in an era of globalization, where … different from oneself. We investigate whether globalization induces parents to want to instill tolerance in their children, the … willingness-to-teach-kids-tolerance measure, that globalization enhances the willingness to transmit such social values. More …
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concern since it causes irreversible damage and have implications later in life. Recent research suggests globalization is a … globalization effect on child health, in particular in low- and middle-income countries. One factor that could explain such … paper disentangles the relationship between globalization, democracy, and child health. Specifically the paper examines how …
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. We examine the effect of globalization on the occupational mixes using detailed Swedish data that cover all firms and a …
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industry and the role that globalization plays in that process. Using matched worker-firm data from Sweden, we find strong … may be significant gains from globalization that have not been identified in the past – globalization may improve the …
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