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| List of figures | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Globalization and the race to the bottom debate: the fundamental concern | |
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| The focus and plan of the book | |
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| Contributions | |
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| The race to the bottom in developing countries | |
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| Existing literature on the globalization-welfare state nexus | |
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| Globalization, labor and the race to the bottom in developing countries | |
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| The evidence | |
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| Contrasting trends in globalization and welfare: rich versus poor nations | |
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| LDC labor in a globalizing economy | |
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| Model specification | |
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| The variables | |
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| Results | |
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| Summary | |
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| Who really gets hurt? | |
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| Importance of the distributive effects of social spending in developing nations | |
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| Links between globalization, welfare spending, and inequality in OECD countries | |
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| The link between globalization, welfare spending, and inequality in LDCs | |
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| The base model: the effects of globalization and social spending on income distribution | |
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| The dependent variable: income distribution | |
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| Independent variables | |
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| Results | |
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| Globalization and prospects for equity-enhancing reform | |
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| Robustness checks | |
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| Interpretation of results: the role of government-labor relations, information, and interests | |
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| Summary | |
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| LDC welfare states: convergence? What are the implications? | |
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| Welfare states in developing countries? The existing literature | |
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| Contemplating systematic divergence in LDCs: patterns of welfare regimes | |
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| Questioning CPE convergence: why LDCs are likely to have welfare states | |
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| Questioning IPE convergence: twentieth-century globalization and different LDC welfare regimes | |
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| Delineating different welfare regimes in developing countries | |
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| Cluster analysis: testing contrasting hypotheses | |
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| Analysis results | |
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| Robustness checks | |
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| Initial interpretation of the results | |
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| Implications | |
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| Globalization and the protective welfare state: case study of India | |
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| India's protective welfare state | |
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| Race to the bottom? | |
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| Social security | |
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| Health care and education | |
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| Summary | |
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| Institutional change | |
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| Welfare regime change? | |
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| Mediating role of domestic institutions | |
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| Who really gets hurt? | |
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| Social security | |
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| Health care | |
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| Education | |
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| Summary | |
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| Other factors: democracy, ethnic fragmentation, and culture | |
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| Implications | |
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| Globalization and the productive welfare state: case study of South Korea | |
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| South Korea's productive welfare state | |
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| Race to the bottom | |
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| Social security | |
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| Labor market protections | |
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| Summary | |
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| Institutional change | |
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| Welfare regime change? | |
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| Mediating role of domestic institutions | |
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| Who really gets hurt? | |
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| Labor market protections | |
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| Social security (and social assistance) | |
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| Health care | |
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| Education | |
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| Summary | |
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| Other factors: democracy, civil society groups, and Japanese influences | |
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| Implications | |
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| Globalization and the dual welfare state: case study of Brazil | |
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| Brazil's weak dual welfare state | |
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| Decommodification policies | |
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| Commodification policies | |
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| Race to the bottom | |
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| Social security | |
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| Labor market protections | |
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| Health care | |
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| Education | |
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| Summary | |
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| Institutional change | |
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| Welfare regime change? | |
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| Mediating role of domestic institutions | |
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| Who really gets hurt? | |
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| Social security and labor market protections (and social assistance) | |
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| Health care | |
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| Education | |
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| Summary | |
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| Other factors: democracy and partisanship | |
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| Implications | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| The case studies in perspective: globalization, domestic institutions, and social policies | |
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| Questioning prevailing assumptions and future research | |
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| Rethinking the trade-off between states and markets in developing economies | |
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| Rethinking the political economies of developing countries | |
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| Rethinking the capital-labor dichotomy | |
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| Broader questions for future research | |
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| Prospects for the future? | |
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| LDC social spending | |
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| Assessing potential labor power | |
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| Additional tests for the RTB hypothesis | |
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| Variables in the inequality model | |
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| Technical notes on Gini coefficients | |
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| LDC Gini coefficient statistics | |
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| Robustness check | |
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| Conditional impact of trade on inequality | |
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| Descriptions and sources of variables | |
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| Cluster results minus outcome variables | |
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| Dendrogram for cluster analysis | |
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| Poverty tables | |
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| Social expenditures on social security, health, and education in India (percent of GDP) based on national data | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |