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over the last 60 years that is reducing poverty and expanding the middle class in most nations of the world. This economic … resulting products are widely available through trade. The world trade regime has evolved to significantly remove barriers to … forecasts a further increase in the trend toward one world market, the convergence of wage rates for manufactured products and …
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There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant effect on child labour. Consistently with the theory, a...
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This paper investigates the link between globalization, operationalized as openness to trade, and the welfare state, defined as social spending, in a panel of 21 countries from 1920 to 2000. It argues for a clear definition of globalization with clearly defined and testable data, and that social...
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