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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 | |