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There is considerable concern regarding the prospective development of employment levels and job types in the future. The paper tries to highlight major trends shaping the world of work in developed economies with the aim of giving a realistic account of probable developments and the...
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critical light on their respective potential to attend to contemporary problems of globalization. I distinguish the standard …' transformation of statehood under conditions of globalization aimed at recovering the public good beyond the international order of …
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We investigate the interplay of language skills and immigrant stocks in determining bilateral FDI out-stocks of OECD reporting countries. Applying a Poisson panel estimator to 2004-2011 data, we find a robust positive effect of bilateral immigrants on bilateral FDI - provided that residents of...
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In my view, globalization is a process that has taken place episodically since approximately the beginning of the 16th … century. Previously, there were a number of attemps at globalization, which however failed to attain the precondition of … the driving forces and the consequences of globalization. In the respective chapters, Chinas highly variegated role is …
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Mit einem umfassenden und in der Öffentlichkeit höchst umstrittenen Handels- und Investitionsabkommen (TTIP) wollen die EU und die USA die größte Freihandelszone der Welt errichten und damit Wachstum und Beschäftigung stimulieren. Zwar prognostizieren alle bisherigen TTIP-Studien positive...
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This paper constructs a simple theoretical model to study the implications of globalization for inequality and … redistribution. It shows that when globalization increases inequality, a policymaker interested in maximizing the sum of welfares of … all agents increases redistribution. Empirically, the paper examines the effects of globalization on inequality and …
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This paper examines how regionalization in the face of globalization has affected financial development in the context … has reduced; (2) financial institutions of COMESA have improved their capacity to fund openness related activities …/projects with deposits; (3) increase in welfare has positively affected the intermediary role of banks; (4) globalization tends to …
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Purpose - Is globalization instrumental in fighting corruption? Do wealth effects matter in this fight? Are findings … standpoints. In the analysis, while the economic and social dimensions of globalization are reflected in the HDI, the political … dimension is captured by good governance indicators. A TSLS-IV estimation technique is applied where-in globalization …
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Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to assess the effects of trade and financial globalization on human development … variables are exogenous to the endogenous components of explaining variables (globalization dynamic channels) conditional on … alternative globalization indicators; (2) endogeneity based estimation; (3) adoption of two interchangeable sets of instruments …
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Are formal institutions instrumental in the effect globalization mechanisms have on the human face? If so, through … some channels of globalization on poverty (and inequality), formal institutions have the capacity to device policies that … which freedoms channels are poverty and inequality mitigated? With the instrumentality of formal institutions: (1) de jure …
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