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INFORMAL WAGE AND FORMAL SECTOR PRODUCTIVITY : THEORY AND EVIDENCES FROM INDIA
Maiti, Dibyendu; Marjit, Sugata - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
We express a doubt on the conventional wisdom namely, of a positive relationship between wage and productivity, of a formal sector firm in a developing economy where the firm can either go for subcontracting to the informal sector to minimize wage cost along with apprehension of extra-legal cost...
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Offshoring, tasks, and the skill-wage pattern
Baumgarten, Daniel; Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - Center for Globalization and Europeanization of the … - 2010
The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals\' tasks can be … suitability of a task for offshoring and the associated skill level. Accordingly, wage effects of offshoring can be very …-level data on off- shoring. Our main results suggest that in partial equilibrium, wage effects of offshoring are fairly modest …
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