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"Elizabeth Ingleson explores the roots of bilateral trade between the United States and China. Telling the story of the … 1970s US activists and entrepreneurs who pressed for access to China's vast labor market, Ingleson shows how not just …
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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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Demographic change across the globe puts pressure on labour markets and public finances. Most studies on ageing focus on the projected development of the old age dependency ratio, being the ratio of persons 65 or older relative to the working age population. This ratio gives a very incomplete...
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International migration of people is a momentous and complex phenomenon. Research on its causes and consequences, requires sufficient data. While some datasets are available, the nature of migration complicates their scientific use. Virtually no existing dataset captures international migration...
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The globalization of production has given women opportunities for new areas of paid employment, to earn an income, be … overall.This paper was written as an insight into the work of the World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization … 2004 that aims to provide a fairer globalization for all …
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American global cities. This article examines such paradox drawn between globalization-induced development and coastal … globalization pressures expand a global city's urban footprint …
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trends and from the inclusion of China and eastern Europe into the World Trade Organization. This led to a shift in … manufacturing to Asia, especially China; a stagnation in real wages; a collapse in the power of private sector trade unions …
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This paper offers recommendations about how we can promote economic justice in the face of globalization. At the outset … globalization took off. Next, this paper considers the government's role in countering the free market's tendency to push us toward … economic justice in the face of globalization. More specifically, we should fix the tax system, reform the welfare system …
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This paper documents where immigrants who enter the U.S. with different types of visas ("green cards") choose to live initially and what determines those location choices. Using population data on immigrants from the Immigration and Naturalization Service from 1971 to 2000, matched to data on...
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