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Family Ties
Alesina, Alberto; Giuliano, Paola - 2013
We study the role of the most primitive institution in society: the family. Its organization and relationship between generations shape values formation, economic outcomes and influences national institutions. We use a measure of family ties, constructed from the World Values Survey, to review...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319597
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Chapter 4. Family Ties
Alesina, Alberto; Giuliano, Paola - 2014
We study the role of the most primitive institution in society: the family. Its organization and relationship between generations shape values formation, economic outcomes, and influences national institutions. We use a measure of family ties, constructed from the World Values Survey, to review...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025607
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DIALOGO — Religion and Society : Agreements & Controversies
Mirea, Ruxandra - 2017
Religion is the most paradox, intriguing and social active factor in the world history since the beginning of human society and till the end of it, no matter how evolved or primitive its precepts ever were. For that reason Religion was always a subject for endless study in different perspectives...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965618
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Labor Standards and Trade Agreements : Raising Standards or Raising the Walls of Protectionism?
McGee, Robert W.; Yoon, Yeomin - 2003
Several major trade agreements in recent years have included a provision that addresses labor standards. Other trade agreements that are now in the discussion stage are considering incorporating labor standards as an integral part of the final agreement. The goals of such agreements are noble -...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014084844
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Labor Standards and Human Rights Abuses : A Look at Some Neglected Rights Issues
McGee, Robert W.; Yoon, Yeomin - 2003
Various groups have been demanding that discussions of labor standards be included in all future trade negotiations. The press is full of stories of alleged exploitation of child labor and other employment abuses in developing countries and human rights groups have demanded that something be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014084846
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The welfare effects of globalization with labor market regulation
Palokangas, Tapio K. - 2015
I examine how globalization affects wages and welfare in a general equilibrium model of international trade with partly … oligopolistic markets. Globalization is modeled as reducing trade costs or opening up shielded sectors to trade. There is a national …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347148
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Quantifying the extensive margin(s) of trade : the case of uneven European integration
Anderson, James E.; Yotov, Yoto - 2022
and a novel domestic extensive margin. The domestic extensive margin allows identification of globalization and specific … effects of globalization and European integration. We find strong positive effects of globalization and also significant but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013285497
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A rising tide? : the local incidence of the second wave of globalization
Gray, Rowena; Wright, Greg C. - 2022
We estimate the short- and long-run local labor market impacts of the large increase in U.S. imports and exports that occurred over the 1970s. We exploit the sequential opening of overseas shipping container ports over the period, which generated discontinuous changes in U.S. trade ows. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013186771
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Globalization & regionalization in international trade
Țigănașu, Ramona; Maha, Liviu George; Mursa, Claudiu … - In: CES working papers 1 (2009) 2, pp. 5-19
The concept of globalization refers to the growing interdependence of countries, resulting from the increasing … process are the international trade and the cross-border investment flows. Economic globalization has increased the … specialization of workers, while the companies compete in global markets. Even globalization has recently become a common topic in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011992014
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Offshoring and the decline of unions
Munch, Jakob Roland; Olney, William W. - 2024
The prevalence of labor unions have declined post-WWII, and this paper examines whether globalization is a contributing … distributional effects of globalization and for the future of organized labor. …
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