Globalization and the Transmission of Social Values: The Case of Tolerance

Berggren, Niclas; Nilsson, Thérèse

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“…By using the Cingranelli-Richards (CIRI) Human Rights Dataset, globalization has been shown to improve women's economic and social rights and human rights as measured by physical integrity rights (Cho 2013, De Soysa and Vadlamannati 2011, and Dreher et al 2012). Globalization has also been shown to enhance the willingness to transmit tolerance (Berggren and Nilsson 2014).…”

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Globalization and social justice in OECD countries

Kauder

Potrafke

2015

Rev World Econ

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may Globalization and Social Justice in OECD CountriesAbstract Social justice is a topic of importance to social scientists and also political decision makers. We examine the relationship between globalization and social justice as measured by a new indicator for 31 OECD countries. The results show that countries that experienced rapid globalization enjoy social justice. When the KOF index of globalization increases by one standard deviation, the social justice indicator increases by about 0.4 points (on a scale from 1 to 10). The policy implication is that permitting a national economy to become globally integrated is consistent with and promotes social justice.JEL-Code: D630, F610.

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Globalization and social justice in OECD countries

Kauder

Potrafke

2015

Rev World Econ

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“…Both measures show sufficient variation across countries and time (see also Fischer and Somogyi 2012). The KOF index of globalization is the most widely employed measure of globalization and has been used in more than 100 papers of the recent economic literature (e.g., Potrafke 2013Potrafke , 2014Berggren and Nilsson 2014; Fischer 2012b, c). Table 13.1 provides summary statistics of the variables and measures employed in the empirical analyses.…”

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Globalized Markets, Globalized Information, and Female Employment: Accounting for Regional Differences in 30 OECD Countries

Fischer

2015

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Accounting for within-country spatial differences is a neglected aspect in many cross-country comparisons. This chapter highlights this importance in this empirical analysis of the impact of a country's degree of informational and economic globalization on female employment in 30 OECD countries, using a micro pseudo panel of 110,000 persons derived from five waves of repeated cross sections from the World Values Survey, 1981Survey, -2008. I conjecture that informational globalization affects societal values and perceived economic opportunities, while economic globalization impacts actual economic opportunities. A traditional crosscountry analysis suggests that the informational dimension of globalization but not the economic one increases the probability of employment for womencontradicting the Becker (1957) hypothesis of international competition mitigating discrimination in employment. However, accounting for subnational regional gender heterogeneity reveals that the impact of worldwide information exchange works rather at the regional level, while economic globalization (trade) increases female employment in general. Keywords IntroductionWomen's employment is a debated topic in economics and in the public, particularly since it has become evident that an ordinary family profits from women's contributions to household resources. In addition, the welfare state might also profit from increased female employment: in times of growth volatility and higher job turnover, female employment might reduce men's demand for automatic macroeconomic stabilizers and reduce social transfers (e.g., EU 2010). According to Becker (1957Becker ( , 1971, if nonparticipation and nonemployment of women are a result of their discrimination in the domestic labor market, a country's exposure to global competition through imports, exports, and FDI should mitigate this phenomenon: more women are predicted to be working as a country opens up to world markets. In addition, I conjecture that the exchange of information around the world might lead to self-criticism and reassessment of cultural traditions, such as the traditional role model that attributes to men the role of sole breadwinner in the family. Additionally, the worldwide exchange of information may also affect how women perceive their occupational "choice set" and their resulting labor supply decisions. For this reason, greater exposure to worldwide information flows should equally lead to more women participating in the labor market.This article empirically investigates the impact of globalization on female labor market participation and female employment in OECD countries; this study employs "globalization" in two of its manifestations: first, in the form of a country's economic integration into global markets ("economic globalization") and second, in the form of worldwide information exchange between people through tourism and the internet ("informational globalization"). This empirical analysis of globalization effects for female employment focuses on two questions:...

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The Evidence on Globalisation

Potrafke¹

2014

World Economy

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Globalisation is blamed for many socioeconomic shortcomings. I discuss the consequences of globalisation by surveying the empirical globalisation literature. My focus is on the KOF indices of globalisation that have been used in more than 100 studies. Early studies using the KOF index reported correlations between globalisation and several outcome variables. Studies published more recently identify causal effects. The evidence shows that globalisation has spurred economic growth, promoted gender equality and improved human rights. Moreover, globalisation did not erode welfare state activities, did not have any significant effect on labour market interaction and hardly influenced market deregulation. It increased, however, within‐country income inequality. The consequences of globalisation thus turn out to be overall much more favourable than often conjectured in the public discourse.

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Globalization and the Transmission of Social Values: The Case of Tolerance

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Globalization and social justice in OECD countries

Globalization and social justice in OECD countries

Globalized Markets, Globalized Information, and Female Employment: Accounting for Regional Differences in 30 OECD Countries

The Evidence on Globalisation

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