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The literature has paid very little attention to a potential positive endogenous nexus between trade globalization and … shows that trade globalization dampens political liberalization, though political liberalization fosters trade globalization …
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This paper uses cross-country data to examine the long-term effect of trade openness on the gender gaps in wages, education, political empowerment and health. Key findings are: trade openness since 1970 reduced the gender gaps in wages and educational attainment as of 2011 but did not influence...
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There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant effect on child labour. Consistently with the theory, a...
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This contribution provides evidence for the hypothesis that trade increases growth through its curbing effect on capital taxes. The analysed trade-growth channel includes a negative impact of openness on corporate taxes and a negative effect of taxes on growth. The paper explores the two steps...
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This paper investigates the link between globalization, operationalized as openness to trade, and the welfare state …, defined as social spending, in a panel of 21 countries from 1920 to 2000. It argues for a clear definition of globalization … welfare program since the effect of globalization is probably not uniform. The paper finds notable divergences in openness and …
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The essays of this book are contributions to the empirical Literature in International Trade and Public Economics. They deal with the relationship between the structure and quality of the public sector and the process of economic integration. Two of the essays add to the empirical determinants...
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