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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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Expanding social protection in developing countries : a gender perspective

Antonopoulos, Rania - 2013

This paper discusses social protection initiatives in the context of developing countries and explores the opportunities they present for promoting a gender-equality agenda and women's empowerment. The paper begins with a brief introduction on the emergence of social protection (SP) and how it...

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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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The rise and fall of export-led growth

Palley, Thomas I. - 2011

This paper traces the rise of export-led growth as a development paradigm and argues that it is exhausted owing to changed conditions in emerging market (EM) and developed economies. The global economy needs a recalibration that facilitates a new paradigm of domestic demand-led growth....

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Short and long-run labor market effects of developing country exports : evidence from Bangladesh

Robertson, Raymond; Kokas, Deeksha; Cardozo, Diego; … - 2020

This paper studies how a positive export shock - the sharp increase in garment-sector exports that began at the end of the Multifibre Arrangement (MFA) - spread through Bangladesh's labor markets. Although the end of the MFA was arguably exogenous to Bangladesh, we instrument export demand with...

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Making aid work : governance and decentralization

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2014

Donor aid organizations (DAOs) are multi-layered and multi-dimensional bureaucracies with many departments trying to find solutions to problems for countries, investing staff resources and effort into having an effect. A department may come into conflict with other departments because of...

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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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