Until the 1970s many developing countries—in Latin America and South-East Asia as well
as Africa—were rather reluctant to accept foreign investment and pursued a policy of import …

The New Development Paradigm (NDP) integrates the theoretical and empirical views on
development that have gained prominence since the mid‐1990s. In particular the …

Determining whether international economic integration in advanced economies increases
worker insecurity is critical to competing explanations of welfare-state policymaking and the …

This paper examines the interactions between Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), inequality,
and growth, both from an empirical and a theoretical point of view. Using a panel of 119 …

This paper tests the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on income inequality in a panel
of 16 African countries from 1980 to 2013. We controlled for both non-linear effects and …

" Globalization and Labor Conditions explains how the three main mechanisms of
globalization-trade, international migration, and international capital flows-alter working …

Foreign direct investment (FDI) can affect the levelanddispersion of wages, but there is a
lack of empirical work in this area. This paper tests for the effects of FDI on wages and wage …

William MILBERG* ost studies of economic globalization emphasize the rise in the Mdegree
of world trade openness since 1980, as measured in terms of the amount of trade in relation …

While foreign-owned firms have consistently been found to pay higher wages than domestic
firms to what appear to be equally productive workers, the causes of this remain unresolved …

There is a heated debate on the effects of Foreign Direct Investment on development.
Proponents argue that FDI is good for development, and hence the rapid expansion of FDI in …