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How bad is globalization for labour standards in the north?

Donado Gomez, Alejandro; Wälde, Klaus - 2010

We analyse a world consisting of 'the North' and 'the South' where labour standards in the North are set by trade unions. Standards set by unions tend to increase output and welfare. There are no unions in the South and work standards are suboptimal. Trade between these two countries can imply a...

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Victims of progress : economic integration, specialization, and wages for unskilled labor

Francois, Joseph F.; Nelson, Douglas R. - 2000

In this paper we demonstrate that intra-industry trade (or FDI)between identical countries could produce theobserved deterioration in the relative wages of unskilled workers.This involves a model of North-Northintegration through either increased trade flows or increased MNE-based production....

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Globalisation versus informality : evidence from developing countries

Pham, Thi Hong Hanh - 2011

A number of theoretical studies have tended to trace the nature of globalization process' impacts (mostly characterised … Bayesian statistical techniques, which allow one to determine, from a large set of different globalization indicators, a subset …

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Globalization, EU enlargement and income distribution

Breuss, Fritz - 2007

which influences on the development of the labor income shares are at work. Globalization, measured by revealed comparative …

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Global engagement, complex tasks, and the distribution of occupational employment

Davidson, Carl; Heyman, Fredrik; Matusz, Steven J.; … - 2015

Building on a framework introduced by Chaney and Ossa (2013), we construct a task-based model of the firm's choice of occupational inputs to examine how that choice varies with greater global engagement. We depart from Chaney and Ossa by assuming that more complex tasks are more costly to...

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Global production networks and employment : a developing country perspective

Shepherd, Ben; Stone, Susan F. - 2013

This paper provides evidence of the links between Global Value Chains (GVCs) and labour market outcomes, focusing on developing economies. The literature generally indicates that firms with international linkages—which we use here as a proxy for GVC involvement—tend to employ more workers,...

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Skill-biased labor market reforms and international competitiveness

Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - 2012

; globalization ; search unemployment ; labor market institutions …

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FDI, skill-specific unemployment, and institutional spillover effects

Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - 2012

at home and abroad irrespective of their level of skill. -- FDI ; globalization ; search unemployment ; labor market …

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Globalization and income inequality : the role of transmission mechanisms

Hennighausen, Tanja - 2014

which globalization should influence the personal distribution of market and disposable incomes as well as redistribution. I … employ panel data covering 28 OECD countries between 1960 and 2010 to analyze the impact of globalization on a set of labor … industrialized countries. Rather, the globalization-induced rise in income dispersion through greater factor price differences is …

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Globalization, infrastructure, and inclusive growth

Winters, Leonard 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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