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How will international integration affect welfare policies? This paper considers the possibilities of financing public sector activities (public consumption and social security expenses) by general (wage) taxation in an economy which becomes more integrated in international product markets. Even...
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We propose the so-called domestic "embodied unit labor costs" (EULC) at the country-sector level as a new cost-related basis for measures of international competitiveness. EULC take into account that a sector's labor costs constitute only a small share of its total cost which to a large extent...
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Globalization brings opportunities and pressures for domestic firms in emerging market economies to innovate and … globalization through the impact of increased competition and foreign direct investment on domestic firms’ efforts to raise their …
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globalization on the labor market outcomes of these workers. We find that higher foreign competition leads to more incentive …
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Has rising import competition contributed to the polarization of U.S. politics? Analyzing multiple measures of political expression and results of congressional and presidential elections spanning the period 2000 through 2016, we find strong though not definitive evidence of an ideological...
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This paper uses an oligopoly model with heterogeneous firms to examine how an industry adjusts to rising import competition. The model predicts that in the short run the least efficient firms in the industry become inactive, surviving firms face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the...
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analysis in the context of economic globalization and the demand for labor as well as long run international output …
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, in contrast, that σ is affected by both globalization and technology, and that different intensities in these drivers … substitution between capital and labor is below unity; that it increases along with the degree of globalization; but it decreases …-output ratio on the labor share irrespective of the degree of globalization (which would be consistent with an average aggregate …
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I examine how globalization affects wages and welfare in a general equilibrium model of international trade with partly … oligopolistic markets. Globalization is modeled as reducing trade costs or opening up shielded sectors to trade. There is a national …
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High-skilled workers are four times more likely to migrate than low-skilled workers. This skill bias in migration - often called brain drain - has been at the center of a heated debate about the welfare consequences of emigration from developing countries. In this paper, we provide a global...
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