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Globalization, infrastructure, and inclusive growth

Winters, L. Alan - 2014

This paper covers threes issues: first, defining and measuring inclusive growth; second, the relationship between international trade and inequality; and third, the links between infrastructure and inequality. Both international trade and infrastructure make it easier for people to exchange...

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Globalization: A Woman's Best Friend? Exporters and the Gender Wage Gap

Bøler, Esther Ann; Javorcik, Beata Smarzynska; … - 2015

While the impact of globalization on income inequality has received a lot of attention, little is known about its …

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Trade exposure of Western Europe to China and Eastern Europe: A spatial econometric analysis of the effects on regional manufacturing employment from 1991-2011

Badinger, Harald; Reuter, Wolf Heinrich - 2017

This study analyzes the effects of increased trade with China and Eastern Europe on manufacturing employment in 1,146 NUTS-3 regions of 17 Western European countries from 1991 to 2011. Building on Autor et al. (2013) we aim at identifying the causal effects of an increase in import and export...

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Globalization and Executive Compensation

Keller, Wolfgang; Olney, William W. - 2017

This paper identifies globalization as a factor behind the rapid increase in executive compensation and inequality over … executive compensation, indicating that globalization is influencing compensation through pay-for-non-performance. Furthermore … firms with poor corporate governance, as one would expect if globalization has enhanced rent-capture opportunities. Overall …

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Trade and Labor Reallocation with Heterogeneous Enforcement of Labor Regulations

Almeida, Rita; Poole, Jennifer P. - 2013

This paper revisits the question of how trade openness affects labor market outcomes in a developing country setting. We explore the fact that plants face varying degrees of exposure to global markets and to the enforcement of labor market regulations, and rely on Brazil's currency crisis in...

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Globalization and Imperfect Labor Market Sorting

Davidson, Carl; Heyman, Fredrik; Matusz, Steven; … - 2010

industry and the role that globalization plays in that process. Using matched worker-firm data from Sweden, we find strong … may be significant gains from globalization that have not been identified in the past - globalization may improve the …

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Liberalized Trade and Worker-Firm Matching

Davidson, Carl; Heyman, Fredrik; Matusz, Steven; … - 2012

Recent theoretical analysis suggests that a reduction in the cost of exporting increases the degree of assortative matching between workers and firms in export-oriented industries. Changes that reduce the cost of imports have an ambiguous impact on matching. We combine detailed Swedish matched...

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Why ex(im)porters pay more: Evidence from matched firm-worker panels

Martins, Pedro S.; Opromolla, Luca David - 2011

We investigate the relationship between exporting, importing, and wage premia using a rich matched employer-employee data set. We improve on the previous literature (i) by using a new methodology to quantify the contribution of an extensive set of worker- and firm-level observable and...

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Globalization and Protection of Employment

Fischer, Justina A. V.; Somogyi, Frank - 2009

Unionists and politicians frequently claim that globalization lowers employment protection of workers. This paper tests … globalization and two labor market segments. While overall globalization is shown to loosen protection of the regularly employed, it …

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International trade, factor mobility and the persistence of cultural-institutional diversity

Belloc, Marianna; Bowles, Samuel - 2009

Cultural and institutional differences among nations may result in differences in the ratios of marginal costs of goods in autarchy and thus be the basis of specialization and comparative advantage, as long as these differences are not eliminated by trade. We provide an evolutionary model of...

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