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significant impediment to growth but religious and linguistic heterogeneity have not. Further, while economic globalization has … more from global integration. This suggests the importance of globalization in redressing the detrimental impact of ethnic …
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We investigate the relationship between exporting, importing, and wage premia using a rich matched employer-employee data set. We improve on the previous literature (i) by using a new methodology to quantify the contribution of an extensive set of worker- and firm-level observable and...
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This paper introduces two composite indices of globalisation. The first is based on the Kearney/Foreign Policy magazine and the second is obtained from principal component analysis. They indicate the level of globalisation and show how globalisation has developed over time for different...
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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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wisdom that globalization has increased the degree of synchronization of business cycles. The evidence that trade and …
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share around the world, in particular from the mid-1980s onwards. Using fixed effects regression methods on a panel dataset …
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Assessing the migration potential and predicting future migration streams are among the most relevant, yet least well understood topics of migration research. The usual approach taken to address aggregate-level prediction problems is to fit ad hoc specifications to historical data, and to...
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In this paper we analyse household income mobility dynamics among Africans in South Africa?s most populous province …, Kwazulu-Natal, between 1993 and 1998. Compared to industrialized and most developing countries, mobility has been quite high … controlled for. When disaggregating the sources of mobility, we find that demographic changes and employment changes account for …
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This paper analyzes the mobility of low income mothers in Australia between two groups of governmental transfer …
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creation, by contrast, has not picked up in regions of high unemployment. Labour mobility also remains very limited in size … asymmetries are necessary to increase worker mobility and to integrate better national labour markets. …
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