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The rise of capitalism and the roots of Anti-American terrorism
Krieger, Tim; Meierieks, Daniel - 2014
This contribution examines the role of capitalism in anti-American terrorism. Using data for 149 countries between 1970 and 2007, this contribution, contrary to expectations from capitalist peace theory, does not find that Anti-American terrorism increases with external economic liberalization...
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Measuring manufacturing : how the computer and semiconductor industries affect the numbers and perceptions
Houseman, Susan N.; Bartik, Timothy J.; Sturgeon, Timothy J. - 2014 - Revised, January 2014
Growth in U.S. manufacturing’s real value-added has exceeded that of aggregate GDP, except during recessions, leading many to conclude that the sector is healthy and that the 30 percent decline in manufacturing employment since 2000 is largely the consequence of automation. The robust growth...
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An investigation of the nexus between globalisation dimensions and income inequality
Tamasauskiene, Zita; Žičkienė, Skaidrė - In: Entrepreneurial business and economics review : EBER 9 (2021) 2, pp. 39-53
Objective: The objective of the article is to explore the nexus between changes of various globalisation dimensions, defined by either policy (de jure) or outcomes (de facto), and the rise in income inequality in a panel of 27 EU countries during the period 1998-2017. Research Design & Methods:...
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Trade openness and income inequality : new empirical evidence
Dorn, Florian; Fuest, Clemens; Potrafke, Niklas - 2021
We examine how trade openness influences income inequality within countries. The sample includes 139 countries over the period 1970-2014. We employ predicted openness as instrument to deal with the endogeneity of trade openness. The effect of trade openness on income inequality differs across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599018
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Is employment globalizing?
Chen, Liming; Felipe, Jesus; Kam, Andrew J.Y.; Mehta, … - 2018
We investigate the claim that national labor markets have become more globally interconnected in recent decades. We do so by deriving estimates over time of three different notions of interconnection: (i) the share of labor demand that is export induced (i.e., all labor demand created by foreign...
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Measuring economic openness : a review of existing measures and empirical practices
Gräbner-Radkowitsch, Claudius; Heimberger, Philipp; … - 2018
This paper surveys existing measures of economic openness understood as the degree to which non-domestic actors can or do participate in a domestic economy. We introduce a typology of openness indicators, which distinguishes between "real" and "financial" openness as well as between "de facto"...
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Globalization in the time of COVID-19
Sforza, Alessandro; Steininger, Marina - 2020 - First version: April 1, 2020
of the disruption in production that started in China and then quickly spread across the world. We find that the COVID-19 … shock has a considerable impact on most economies in the world, especially when a share of the labor force is quarantined …
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Globalization and trade : an unfortunate tangle
Burnete, Sorin - In: Expert journal of economics 7 (2019) 2, pp. 75-82
Globalization disrupted the seemingly solid construction emerged in the aftermath of WW II, called the international …. Globalization has muddied the waters. The contemporary order in which multinational companies make the rules has made these …
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Globalization and income inequality revisited
Dorn, Florian; Fuest, Clemens; Potrafke, Niklas - 2018
This paper re-examines the link between globalization and income inequality. We use data for 140 countries over the … period 1970-2014 and employ an IV approach to deal with the endogeneity of globalization measures. We find that the link … between globalization and income inequality differs across different groups of countries. There is a robust positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011789164
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Trade openness and income inequality : new empirical evidence
Dorn, Florian; Fuest, Clemens; Potrafke, Niklas - 2021
We examine how trade openness influences income inequality within countries. The sample includes 139 countries over the period 1970-2014. We employ predicted openness as instrument to deal with the endogeneity of trade openness. The effect of trade openness on income inequality differs across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012592197