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There has been no shortage of theories which purport to explain why globalisation may have, adverse, insignificant or even beneficial effects on income and earnings inequality. Surprisingly, the empirical realities remain an almost complete mystery. In this paper we use data on industrial wage...
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For a number of OECD countries, the deterioration of labour market outcomes for less-skilled workers since the early 1980's has coincided with a steady decline in union membership. Globalisation is commonly believed to have contributed to both developments. However, recent studies fail to find...
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Using panel regression for the period 1970-2000 the paper analyzes whether globalization has influenced the OECD … endogeneity of the regressors, the results show that globalization (measured by an index covering 23 variables) did not generally … decrease the leeway for independent economic policy. Globalization even increased implicit tax rates on capital (as calculated …
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According to the disciplining hypothesis, globalization restrains governments by inducing increased budgetary pressure … globalization ( compensation hypothesis ). Employing two different datasets and various measures of globalization, we analyze … whether globalization has indeed influenced the composition of government expenditures. For a sample of 108 countries, we …
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