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Globalization is described as a process by which regional economics, societies and cultures have become integrated … against globalization. Bhagwati claims that globalization has created a direct link to economic fortunes for the poor rural … globalization is the fact that it has produced unprecedentedly high levels of inequality or hardships to the poor. Evidence from …
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industry and the role that globalization plays in that process. Using matched worker-firm data from Sweden, we find strong … evidence that openness improves the matching between workers and firms in export-oriented industries. This suggests that there … may be significant gains from globalization that have not been identified in the past – globalization may improve the …
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industry and the role that globalization plays in that process. Using matched worker-firm data from Sweden, we find strong … evidence that openness improves the matching between workers and firms in export-oriented industries. This suggests that there … may be significant gains from globalization that have not been identified in the past – globalization may improve the …
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of privatization/liberalization, at distinct modalities, within the implementation of globalization-oriented policies …
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taking place in an industrial district confronted with disembedding and globalization. We discuss the following questions …
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What economic mechanisms underlie the polarization of the world economy into the 'high wage' industrialized countries and the less developed 'low wage' countries? Should we expect the two groups to converge over time, or to diverge? What economic mechanisms come into play as LDCs attempt to...
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We study the long run relationship between natural resources abundance and wealth of countries producing differentiated products sold in the international market. When the price (terms of trade) of national products depend on the human capital used to produce them, natural resources may lead to...
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We study global adoption processes where the units of observation are countries which sequentially adopt a particular technology. Our goal is to provide a better understanding of how exogenous and endogenous country characteristics affect this diffusion process. We develop a general model of...
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This paper analyses industrial policy in a high wage open economy hosting an agglomeration consisting of vertically linked upstream and downstram firms. We show that optimal policy towards upstream in-dustries typically di¤er from the optimal policy towards downstream industries.
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To overcome problems produced by globalization, some people see the solution in a World Government while others see it …
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