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The impact of trade and investment liberalization on the wage skill premium: evidence from Vietnam

Nguyen, Kien Trung - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2014

This paper examines the impact of trade and investment liberalization on the wage skill premium between skilled and unskilled workers in Vietnamese manufacturing. The result from an econometric analysis using a firm-level dataset reveals the important role of trade liberalization as an impetus...

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The Impact of Production Fragmentation on Skill Upgrading: New Evidence from Japanese Manufacturing

Yamashita, Nobuaki - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2008

This paper examines the hypothesis that industries engaged in international fragmentation of production experience greater skill upgrading using a panel dataset of Japanese manufacturing over the period 1980-2000. The novelty of the study comes from the use of a newly constructed index using...

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Skill Composition, Fertility and Economic Growth

Day, Creina - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2013

While high fertility persists in the poorest countries and fertility declines with per capita income in developing … countries, fertility and per capita income are now positively associated across most developed countries. This paper presents a … model where a Ushaped relationship between overall fertility and per capita income reflects within country differences in …

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Network Effects on Trade in Intermediate Goods: Evidence from the Automobile Industry

Nishitateno, Shuhei - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2014

Growing production fragmentation makes analysis of network effects on trade in parts and components more important than ever. This study examines network effects on auto parts exports from six major auto producing countries using a panel dataset covering 49 destinations and 31 products over the...

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The Differential Effects of Financial Development on India's Industrial Performance

Gupta, Nitin - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011

The paper aims to investigate the differential impact of increased financial development on industrial output, across state and industry categories. Using an unbalanced panel of 15 Indian states, 22 industries at the 2-digit level, and an 11-year period spanning 1992-2002, the paper's most novel...

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Exports and Job Creation in Indonesia Before and After the Asian Financial Crisis

Aswicahyono, Haryo; Manning, Chris - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011

Employment generation has been a challenge in Indonesia since the Asian Financial Crisis (AFC), especially in labor-intensive manufacturing. We examine the direct and indirect impact of exports on jobs, based on an analysis of input-output tables over the period 1985-2005, and compare these...

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Trade and endogenous product structures

Chand, Satish - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2001

This paper presents a simple model that is able to account for three stylised facts about international trade. First, splicing of value-adding promotes trade in the abundant factor of an economy. Second, trade in intermediate inputs rises as costs of such trade fall but that free trade is not...

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The Regulation of Professional Migration in ASEAN - Insights from the Health and IT Sectors

Manning, Chris; Sidorenko, Alexandra - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2006

This study assesses the extent of regulation of in-migration of professionals into ASEAN countries. The focus is on two selected sectors, health care and information technology (IT). Both sectors have been given special attention in regional trade negotiations which seek to increase the mobility...

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Manufacturing Growth, Trade and Labour Market Outcomes in East Asia; Why Did the NIEs Forge so far Ahead?

Manning, Chris; Posso, Alberto - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2008

This paper seeks to explain different real wage outcomes in two groups of East Asian economies: two New Industrialising Economies (NIEs: Korea and Taiwan), and three Southeast Asian economies (ASEAN-3: Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia), all of which grew rapidly for several decades prior to the...

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THE MOVEMENT OF NATURAL PERSONS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: HOW NATURAL?

Manning, Chris; Bhatnagar, Pradip - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2004

This paper is a preliminary survey of temporary labour migration (TLM) in Southeast Asia (sometimes referred to as the 'movement of natural persons'). The paper is set in the context of global patterns of international migration and policies towards migration in a multilateral context. We then...

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