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The paper analyzes the link between firm characteristics and labor market regulation in five Asian economies - Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Viet Nam. Labor market policies and labor standards do not only affects workers, but also influence firms' investment and...
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A number of theoretical studies have tended to trace the nature of globalization process' impacts (mostly characterised … Bayesian statistical techniques, which allow one to determine, from a large set of different globalization indicators, a subset …
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Global Value Chains (GVCs) started to play an increasing and key role in the global economy from the 1990s on. The market mechanism in GVCs supports industrialisation in the Global South and under certain conditions product and process upgrading. But GVCs do not lead to the catching-up of...
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For a long time globalization could be seen everywhere but in gravity estimates. We offer evidence how globalization …
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Could foreign direct investment (FDI) contribute to improving developing countries' participation in global value chains (GVC)? This is the main issue addressed in this paper. Indeed, FDI seems to be, at least theoretically, a mean to speed up developing countries' participation in GVCs in a...
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To analyse the globalization-inequality relationship, we extend the North-South HOS model by assuming (i) that the size … three phases of globalization, corresponding to different production patterns and to specific changes in inequality in the … decreases during the first phase of globalization, and inequality diverges across countries. In the South, very different …
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Inequality-Globalization nexus. It is shown that by modifying this model and relaxing some of its most restrictive assumptions … suitable modelling of the Inequality-Globalization nexus …
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This paper discusses the occurrence of Skill-Enhancing Technology Import (SETI), namely the relationship between imports of embodied technology and widening skill-based employment differentials in a sample of low and middle income countries (LMICs). In doing so, this paper provides a direct...
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This paper examines the extent to which developing countries benefit from intersectoral factor transfers by specifying the impact and determinants of sectoral changes and of the degree of dualism (or allocation inefficiency) in a dual economy model. Conditions under which factor reallocation is...
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This paper reviews the literature on the informal economy, focusing first on empirical findings and then on existing approaches to modeling informality within both partial and general equilibrium environments. We concentrate on labour and credit markets, since these tend to be most affected by...
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