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Globalization and Income Distribution : A Specific Factors Continuum Approach

Anderson, James E. - 2009

amplifies the risk from idiosyncratic relative productivity shocks but reduces risk from aggregate shocks to absolute advantage …

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Technological Diffusion, Conditional Convergence, and Economic Growth

Bloom, David E. - 2002

leaders. We find strong evidence of technological diffusion but not full convergence; differences in total factor productivity …

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Superstars or Supervillains?$bLarge Firms in the South Korean Growth Miracle

Choi, Jaedo; Levchenko, Andrei A.; Ruzic, Dimitrije; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

consequences of changing firm concentration: productivity, distortions, selection into exporting, scale economies, and … firms is attributable to higher productivity growth rather than differential distortions. Exceptional performance of the top …

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Challenges to globalization : analyzing the economics

Baldwin, Robert E. (ed.) - 2004

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Recent Findings on Trade and Inequality

Harrison, Ann - 2010

The 1990's dealt a blow to traditional Heckscher-Ohlin analysis of the relationship between trade and income inequality, as it became clear that rising inequality in low- income countries and other features of the data were inconsistent with that model. As a result, economists moved away from...

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Global Production Sharing and Rising Inequality : A Survey of Trade and Wages

Feenstra, Robert - 2001

We argue that trade in intermediate inputs, or 'global production sharing,' is a potentially important explanation for the increase in the wage gap between skilled and unskilled workers in the U.S. and elsewhere. Using a simple model of heterogeneous activities within an industry, we show that...

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Globalization and Inequality : Historical Trends

O'Rourke, Kevin H. - 2001

) between-country and within-country inequality. Theory suggests that globalization will have very different implications for … differed greatly across countries: both trade and migration (but not capital flows) made the rich New World more unequal, and … the (less rich) Old World more equal. The evidence on the links between within-country inequality and globalization in the …

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A Primer on Trade and Inequality

Rodrik, Dani - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

In the public imagination globalization's adverse effects have loomed large, contributing significantly to the backlash against the political mainstream and the rise of far-right populism. The literature on trade and inequality is in fact exceptionally rich, with important theoretical insights...

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A Theory of Economic Coercion and Fragmentation

Clayton, Christopher; Maggiori, Matteo; Schreger, Jesse - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Hegemonic powers, like the United States and China, exert influence on other countries by threatening the suspension or alteration of financial and trade relationships. Mechanisms that generate gains from integration, such as external economies of scale and specialization, also increase the...

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Productivity, Tradability, and the Long-Run Price Puzzle

Bergin, Paul - 2004

theory and history to be consistent for a wide range of underlying productivity shocks … and productivity. A model with monopolistic competition, a continuum-of-goods, and endogenous tradability allows for …

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