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Offshoring to a developing nation with a dual labor market

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; … - 2020

improvements in the informal sector expand both offshoring and outsourcing, and the developed nation wage must rise. When the …We present a model of offshoring of tasks to a developing nation, which is characterized by a minimum wage formal … informal sector. An improvement in the productivity in performing offshored tasks in the developing country raises offshoring …

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Disentangling the wage impacts of offshoring on a developing country : theory and policy

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; … - 2016

The various channels through which a reduction in the cost of offshoring can improve wages in a developed country are … by now well understood. But does a similar reduction in the offshoring cost also benefit workers in the world's factories … in developing countries? Using a parsimonious two-country model of offshoring we find very nuanced results. These include …

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Temporary shocks and offshoring : the role of external economies and firm heterogeneity

Mitra, Devashish (contributor); Ranjan, Priya (contributor) - 2007

We construct a model of offshoring with externalities and firm heterogeneity. Due to the presence of externalities …, temporary shocks like the Y2K problem can have permanent effects, i.e., they can permanently raise the extent of offshoring in … an industry. Also, the initial advantage of a country as a potential host for outsourcing activities can create a lock in …

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Aid, growth, and jobs

Fields, Gary S. - 2013

Various development objectives are worthy, but to my mind, one objective dominates all others: reducing the scourge of absolute economic misery in the world. In this paper, I focus on an important but relatively underemphasized approach to poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the...

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A survey of the economics of Fair Trade

Dammert, Ana C.; Mohan, Sarah - 2014

Fair Trade has spread in developing countries as an initiative aimed at lifting poor smallholder farmers out of poverty by providing them with premium prices, availability of credit, and improved community development and social goods. Fair Trade is also viewed as a niche market for high value...

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Determinants of international migration : empirical evidence for migration from developing countries to Germany

Rotte, Ralph; Vogler, Michael - 1998

By means of a descriptive survey of theoretical literature the paper first works out the potential determinants that may drive international migration from developing to developed countries. Furthermore, we look on the relationship between trade, development and migration. Empirical studies...

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The effects of development on migration : theoretical issues and new empirical evidence

Rotte, Ralph; Vogler, Michael - 1999

Empirical research on the determinants of international migration including the LDCs has so far neglected one important issue: the complex relationship of development and migration. Since the beginning of the 1990s several arguments have been discussed which hint at the possibility that progress...

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First Impressions : How Leader Changes Affect Bilateral Aid

Rommel, Tobias - 2017

This paper investigates a new mechanism to explain politically induced changes in bilateral aid. We argue that shifts in the foreign policy alignment between a donor and a recipient country following leadership changes induce reallocation of aid. This is due to heightened uncertainty of...

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Aid and Growth. New Evidence Using an Excludable Instrument

Dreher, Axel - 2017

We use an excludable instrument to test the effect of bilateral foreign aid on economic growth in a sample of 96 recipient countries over the 1974-2009 period. We interact donor government fractionalization with a recipient country's probability of receiving aid. The results show that...

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The Political Economy of Multilateral Aid Funds

Simon, Jenny - 2016

In 2014 over $60 billion was mobilized to help developing nations mitigate climate change, an amount equivalent to the GDP of Kenya. Interestingly, breaking from the traditional model of bilateral aid, donor countries distributed nearly fifty percent of their aid through multilateral aid funds...

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