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Trends in Commuting Time of European Workers : A Cross-Country Analysis

Giménez, José Ignacio - 2020

This paper examines the time spent commuting to/from work by workers in fifteen European countries, during the last three decades, with the aim of analyzing recent trends in commuting and the factors affecting commuting behavior in those countries. Using data from several waves of the European...

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Learning from Latin America's Experience : Europe's Failure in the 'Lisbon Process'

Tausch, Arno - 2010

to make Europe the leading knowledge-based economy in the world with a "Latin American perspective". A realistic and … performance" of the world economy by multivariate, quantitative means, looking into the possible contradictions that might exists …

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Trade as a Wage Disciplining Device

Persyn, Damiaan - 2021

We estimate how trade openness affects the relationship between wages, labour productivity and foreign wages using sector-level time series for several EU member states. In some countries wages became less responsive to foreign wages as trade costs declined. We show this counter-intuitive result...

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The Impact of Economic Integration on Employment - an Assessment in the Context of EU Enlargement

Fertig, Michael - 2021

This paper is motivated by the idea that the enlargement of the European Union is only one part of an overall process, known as economic integration, which characterizes the involvement of European economies into the global division of labor. Therefore, the paper aims at providing a quantitative...

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Asabiyya : Re-Interpreting Value Change in Globalized Societies

Heshmati, Almas; Tausch, Arno - 2009

. The World Values Survey provided a data framework of global value change, whose quantitative results led members of the … parcel of a larger set of traditional values. With the free available country-wide data from the World Values Survey, we re …/Welzel, 2003, 2003. A frequently asked question is whether “modernization” without “spiritual values” in a globalized world economy …

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Does Hotter Temperature Increase Poverty? Global Evidence from Subnational Data Analysis

Dang, Hai-Anh; Trinh, Trong-Anh - 2022

Despite a vast literature documenting the negative effects of climate change on various socio-economic outcomes, little, if any, evidence exists on the global impacts of hotter temperature on poverty. Analyzing a new global dataset of subnational poverty in 166 countries, we find higher...

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The Global Inequality Boomerang

Kanbur, Ravi; Ortiz-Juarez, Eduardo; Sumner, Andrew - 2022

In this paper we argue that the decline in global inequality over the last decades has spurred a 'sunshine' narrative of falling global inequality that has been rather oversold, in the sense, we argue, it is likely to be temporary. We argue the decline in global inequality will reverse due to...

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Us Presidential Party Switches are Mirrored in Global Maternal Mortality

Bhalotra, Sonia; Clarke, Damian; Mühlrad, Hanna; … - 2022

The Global Gag Rule is a pro-life policy that prohibits aid to overseas non-governmental organisations offering abortion-related information or services. Since first implemented by President Reagan in 1984, it has been enacted under every Republican and revoked under every Democrat. It was...

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The Effects of Globalization and Technology on the Elasticity of Substitution

Sala, Hector - 2017

, 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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Competitiveness at the Country-Sector Level : New Measures Based on Global Value Chains

Marczak, Martyna - 2018

rates. Using the World Input-Output Database (WIOD) we employ the proposed indicators to shed new light on changes in cost …

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