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legal rights for gay men, GDP per capita, democracy and economic globalization tend to benefit gays, primarily by shaping …
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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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relationship between economic and social globalization and absolute income poverty ex post. We use the globalization index … using a "long run" first difference regression, we find a robust negative correlation between globalization and poverty. We … policies) and social globalization (information flows, personal contact and cultural proximity) respectively, controlling for …
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The existing literature on determinants of migration flows typically claims that income differences across countries should be a pushing factor for people's movement. We suggest that institutional quality is a better proxy for the factors that trigger migration. People may well want to stay in...
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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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