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Labor market and globalization : a comparison of the Latin American and the East Asian experiences in the 1980s and 1990s
Bruno, Randolph Luca - 2010
In this paper we analyse the labor market and its relationship with globalization in two groups of countries similar in …. It is argued that the Latin American group adopted pro-globalization policies too quickly and without an adequate social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003965145
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Labor Market and Globalization: A Comparison of the Latin American and the East Asian Experiences in the 1980s and 1990s
Bruno, Randolph Luca - 2010
In this paper we analyse the labor market and its relationship with globalization in two groups of countries similar in …. It is argued that the Latin American group adopted pro-globalization policies too quickly and without an adequate social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331394
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Economic Liberalization and Rising College Premiums in Mexico: A Reinterpretation
Mehta, Aashish; Mohr, Belinda Acuña - In: World Development 40 (2012) 9, pp. 1908-1920
Mexico’s college premium rose in the 1990s. Studies employing structural decomposition analyses treat the college premium as the relative price of “skilled” to “unskilled” workers. They find that reallocations of labor across industries and occupations cannot account for rising college...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011052177
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A Romanian Short Perspective Upon the Labor Market Management
Balan, Ana Maria - 2013
Contributing to a normal and balanced functioning of the national economy, the labor market role is to exploit efficiently the labor resources. It must continually adapt to the technological changes, modernization and general restructuring. The content of the labor market is given by all the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014188994
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Globalization and inequality in Latin America
Carneiro, Rafael Dix; Kovak, Brian K. - 2023
We survey the recent literature studying the effects of globalization on inequality in Latin America. Our focus is on … dimensions of inequality, and developing new methodologies to capture the many facets of globalization's relationship to … that focus on distinct aspects of globalization's relationship to inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014536261
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Global value chains and labour markets - wages, employment or both: input-output aproach
Szymczak, Sabina; Wolszczak-Derlacz, Joanna - 2019 - This version: 29 November 2019
This article examines the overall effect of global value chains (GVCs) on labour market outcomes, namely wages and labour demand. The analysis exploits the World Input-Output Database (WIOD, 2016 release) covering 43 countries and 54 sectors from 2000 to 2014. GVC involvement is measured by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138113
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Globalisation, technological progress and changes in regulations and institutions : which impact on the rise of earnings inequality in OECD countries?
Chen, Wen-hao; Förster, Michael F.; Llena-Nozal, Ana - 2013
This paper examines the distributive impact of economic globalisation, technological progress and changes in labour market policies, regulations and institutions in OECD countries over the past quarter century, up to the Great Recession. It identifies the relevant pathways between macro-economic...
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A fresh chance for Africa's youth labour market effects of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)
Lungu, Ioana - 2019
The African Continental Free Trade Area marks a historic decision on the road to regional economic integration on the continent. If implemented, the agreement has the potential to make a significant impact on improving the livelihoods of the African people, by increasing intra-African trade and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012133949
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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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New Perspectives on Inequality in Latin America
Fernández, Manuel; Serrano, Gabriela - 2022
Latin American countries have some of the highest levels of income inequality in the world. However, earnings inequality significantly changed over the last three decades, increasing during the 1980s and 1990s, declining sharply in the 2000s, and stagnating or even increasing in some countries...
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