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Less welfare or fewer foreigners? : immigrant inflows and public opinion towards redistribution and migration policy
Murard, Elie - 2017
I examine the effect of immigrant inflows in Europe on natives' individual attitudes towards redistribution and immigration policy over the last decade. Unlike previous studies, I analyze the evolution over time of these two types of attitudes in a joint empirical framework. Using migration data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664508
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The impact of globalization and technology transfer on manufacturing employment and skills in Ethiopia
Haile, Getinet Astatike; Srour, Ilina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2013
played by trade and FDI in determining employment. The empirical results obtained lend support to globalization having a … countries (LDCs) embarking on globalization, which enhances the prospect of direct technological imports or embodied …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010226717
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Migration and globalization : what's in it for developing countries?
Rapoport, Hillel - 2016
This paper reviews a growing literature on migration and globalization, focusing on its relevance for developing and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518125
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Globalization and female empowerment: evidence from Myanmar
Molina, Teresa; Tanaka, Mari - 2020
This paper examines whether globalization promotes female empowerment by improving the jobs available to women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389074
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Offshoring and the decline of unions
Munch, Jakob Roland; Olney, William W. - 2024
The prevalence of labor unions have declined post-WWII, and this paper examines whether globalization is a contributing … distributional effects of globalization and for the future of organized labor. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014580754
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Religion in economic history: a survey
Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020
This chapter surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms -Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - and on the period up...
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Unintended consequences : can the rise of the educated class explain the revival of protectionism?
Giordani, Paolo; Mariani, Fabio - 2020
This paper provides a rationale for the revival of protectionism, based on the rise of the educated class. In a trade … model with heterogeneous workers and entrepreneurs, globalization generates aggregate gains but has distributional effects …, which can be attenuated through taxation. By playing a two-stage political game, citizens decide on trade openness and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168075
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Welfare policies, labour taxation and international integration
Andersen, Torben M. - 2001
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401063
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The gain from the drain : skill-biased migration and global welfare
Biavaschi, Costanza; Burzyński, Michał; Elsner, Benjamin - 2016
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011551902
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The impact of labor market reforms on capital flows, wages and unemployment
Beissinger, Thomas - 2001
The paper contributes to the globalization debate by scrutinizing the international spillover effects which are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404156