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We consider a three-stage game to examine how market integration affects firms’ incentives to provide general worker training. In stage 1, firms invest in productivity-enhancing training. In stage 2, they can make wage offers for each others’ workers. Finally, Cournot competition takes...
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The design of optimal immigration policy, particularly in the face of the spiralling demand for highly skilled workers, such as IT workers and engineers, is a topical issue in the policy debate as well as the economic literature. In this paper, we present empirical evidence from firm level data...
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Most labor scarce overseas countries moved decisively to restrict their immigration during the first third of the 20th century. This autarchic retreat from unrestricted and even publiclysubsidized immigration in the first global century before World War I to the quotas and bans introduced...
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This paper considers education investment and public education subsidies in closed and open economies with an extortionary government. The extortionary government in a closed economy has incentives to subsidize education in order to overcome a hold-up problem of time consistent taxation, similar...
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run relationship between globalization and international migration is explored. …
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The paper contributes to the globalization debate by scrutinizing the international spillover effects which are …
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This paper calls for a theoretical orientation in the way we think about globalization and its long-term consequences … for the poor. In contrast with much of the theoretical literature on globalization to date – the lion’s share of it … then takes that argument two steps further. It does this, first, by calling attention to globalization’s impact on the …
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It is evident that globalization is making the world smaller and more interconnected through online communications … being human in the fast changing world.†But what does globalization mean for marginalized people, such as, Dalit and … marginalized groups perceive globalization? It is evident that since India has opened its market in the 1990s, people of all …
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interest that arises between globalization as a “means†and as an “endâ€; two, the implications of network societies and … the politics of marginalization. Globalization is looked at from two ends of a spectrum—as an end product versus as a … process in itself. This distinction between theorizing globalization as an end or as a means to an end has been made by …
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world. This is particularly so, in India. Globalization, in all its various meanings, represents more continuity than …
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