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Globalization, Wages, and Working Conditions : A Case Study of Cambodian Garment Factories
Robertson, Raymond - 2011
We use a comprehensive data set of working conditions and wage compliance in Cambodia's exporting garment factories to explore (1) the impact of foreign ownership on wages and working conditions, (2) whether the relationship between wages and working conditions within these exporting factories...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122355
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Protecting Families in a Global Economy
Dau-Schmidt, Kenneth Glenn; Brun, Carmen L. - 2013
The globalization of the economy has placed tremendous pressure on the modern family. Throughout the developed world, marriage rates are declining, birth and fertility rates are falling, real wages are flat or declining, and hours of family external labor supplied are rising. Finding a spouse...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014061574
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Global Divergence in the De-routinization of Jobs
Lewandowski, Piotr; Park, Albert; Schotte, Simone Raphaela - 2023
implications. Investment in skills, technology use, and participation in global value chains are key factors for work content and …
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Global universal basic skills : current deficits and implications for world development
Gust, Sarah; Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023
How far is the world away from ensuring that every child obtains the basic skills needed to be internationally … skills for 159 countries that cover 98.1% of world population and 99.4% of world GDP. We find that at least two-thirds of the … universal basic skills amounts to over $ 700 trillion over the remaining century, or 11% of discounted GDP. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014477384
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Globalization, Structural Change and Innovation in Emerging Economies : The Impact on Employment and Skills
Vivarelli, Marco - 2018
skills. In particular, the prescriptions by the conventional trade theory will be contrasted with a view taking into account …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909972
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Structural Change and the Skill Premium in a Global Economy
Xu, Yang - 2018
We develop a multi-country general equilibrium model with structural change to investigate the factors affecting the global changes in the skill premium between 1997 and 2007. Trade and technological change increase the skill premium by inducing reallocations to skill-intensive sectors. We apply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012929801
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Globalization, structural change and innovation in emerging economies : the impact on employment and skills
Vivarelli, Marco - 2018
skills. In particular, the prescriptions by the conventional trade theory will be contrasted with a view taking into account …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011904657
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Globalization, structural change and innovation in emerging economies : the impact on employment and skills
Vivarelli, Marco - 2018
skills. In particular, the prescriptions by the conventional trade theory will be contrasted with a view taking into account …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011916217
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Globalization, structural change and innovation in emerging economies : the impact on employment and skills
Vivarelli, Marco - 2018
skills. In particular, the prescriptions by the conventional trade theory will be contrasted with a view taking into account …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129950
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The cost of competitiveness of manufacturing in China and India : an industry and regional perspective
Ark, Bart van (contributor) - 2008
This paper focuses on comparisons of productivity, (unit) labor cost and industrylevel competitiveness for the manufacturing sector of China and India. We first provide a comparison between India and China using a broad international perspective. We find that China has increased its labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003781188