The Social Impact of Globalization in the Developing Countries
By Eddy Lee, M. Vivarelli. Social Science Research Network, 2006
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In this paper an ex-post measurable definition of globalization has been used, namely increasing trade openness and FDI. A general result is that the optimistic Heckscher-Ohlin/Stolper-Samuelson predictions do not apply, that is neither employment creation nor the decrease in within-country inequality are automatically assured by increasing trade and FDI. The other main findings of the paper are that: 1) the employment effect can be very diverse in different areas of the world, giving raise to concentration and marginalisation phenomena; 2) increasing trade and FDI do not emerge as the main culprits of increasing within-country income inequality in DCs, although some evidence emerges that import of capital goods may imply an increase in inequality via skill-biased technological change; 3)increasing trade seems to foster economic growth and absolute poverty alleviation, although some important counter-examples emerge.
Subfields: General Health Professions, Political Science and International Relations, Public Administration
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- Innovation, Employment and Skills in Advanced and Developing Countries: A Survey of Economic Literature (2014, background): “By contrast, these two processes are supposed to have opposite effects in DCs (for an extensive analysis, see Lee and Vivarelli 2004, 2006a, and 2006b).”
- Innovation Strategies and Employment in Latin American Firms (2012, background): “…this would imply an updating of skills in accordance with imported technology and skills in the rest of the world (e.g., Robbins and Gindling, 1999; Lee and Vivarelli, 2006).17 However, if “buy only” mainly affects process innovation, we would expect that this strategy might even displace…”
- Drivers of Entrepreneurship and Post-Entry Performance of Newborn Firms in Developing Countries (2014, unknown): “…low-income and middle-income DCs. Middle-income DCs primarily import innovation produced elsewhere in the global economy, whereas low-income DCs are often completely excluded from any innovative process (see Robbins and Gindling 1999; Robbins 2003; Lall 2004; Lee and Vivarelli 2006; Srholec 2011).”