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What are the barriers that separate nations? While recent work provides intriguing clues, we have remarkably little concrete evidence as to the nature, size, and shape of barriers. This paper offers direct and indirect evidence on trade barriers, moving us toward a comprehensive geography of...
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International trade occurs in physical space and moving goods requires time. This paper examines the importance of time as a trade barrier, estimates the magnitude of time costs, and relates these to patterns of trade and the international organization of production. Estimates indicate that each...
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engem Zusammenhang mit der Globalisierung stehen. So weist das World Watch Institute in seinem zu Beginn des Jahres 2000 ver …Im ausgehenden 20. Jahrhundert nimmt das Ph?nomen der "Globalisierung" einengravierenden Stellenwert im internationalen …
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transforming forces of globalization. While international trade and globalization offer the world community many benefits, there … globalization has come an uneven distribution of the costs and benefits. This appears to have exacerbated inequalities of wealth and … participants in the world economy. Particularly in the agricultural sector and the clothing and textiles sector, the industrialized …
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The post-World War II world trading system is now more than fifty years old, and not surprisingly, it has evolved … institutional characteristics of the World Trade Organization ("WTO"), which may be contributing to, or inhibiting escape from, the … international economic system. Part II will overview the world trading system's need for a cooperative international mechanism or …
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Schulbesuch verbessern. Die Auswirkungen von Globalisierung und insbesondere Handelsliberalisierung bleiben kontextspezifisch, in …Dieses Buch untersucht die Auswirkungen von Globalisierung auf Kinderarbeit sowohl aus theoretischer als auch aus … Handelsliberalisierung auf das Angebot von Kinderarbeit analysiert die Effekte von Einkommensumverteilung durch Außenhandel, und zeigt, dass …
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, mit der Teilhabe Indiens an der Globalisierung. Dabei stellt er fest, dass die Reformpolitik der letzten zehn Jahre trägt … Indian participation in the globalization. He assesses that the reforms in India lead to economic and social process of …
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analyzing the nexus labour standards - labour market outcomes - globalization. The first part, Chapter 2, is a theoretical … analysis of the effects of globalization on the equilibrium labour market policy, employment and wages. The policy instrument … considered is a minimum wage set by the government and influenced by two lobby groups. Globalization is modelled as an increase …
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labor in open economies is that even if international child labor standards do improve world welfare, trade policies will …
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The merger wave that took place during the first phase of globalization, which lasted from 1895 to 1914, changed the … successful during this period. Noteworthy, studies that evaluate the success of mergers during the first phase of globalization … superior economic development in the pre-World-War I period. After reviewing new statistical material, however, the picture has …
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