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The Nature of Employment in India's Services Sector: Exploring the Heterogeneity

Nayyar, Gaurav - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2009

paper is to analyze the nature of employment being created in the different sub-sectors of services, relative to the … industrial sector. The nature of employment is defined to include educational requirements and quality, where the latter … comprises wages, job security and social protection. Using different econometric models to analyse household survey data from …

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Joining the EU: Capital Flows, Migration and Wages

Batista, Catia - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007

measure the impact of foreign investment and emigration on skilled and unskilled wages between 1985 and 1999. We find a small …

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Why Doesn't Labor Flow from Poor to Rich Countries? Micro Evidence from the European Integration Experience

Batista, Catia - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008

Joining the EU is a natural experiment that drastically opens the borders of richer European countries to immigration. However, migration flows from southern Europe responded little to free migration after 1986, despite substantial differentials in real GDP per worker. The simple...

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Search Deterrence

Armstrong, Mark; Zhou, Jidong - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2013

A seller wishes to prevent the discovery of rival offers by its prospective customers. We study sales techniques which serve this purpose by making it harder for a customer to return to buy later after a search for alternatives. These include making an exploding offer, offering a "buy-now"...

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Trade Marks and Performance in UK Firms: Evidence of Schumpeterian Competition through Innovation

Greenhalgh, Christine; Rogers, Mark - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007

This paper uses novel data on trade mark activity of UK manufacturing and service sector firms to investigate whether trade marks improve the profitability and productivity of firms. We first analyse Tobin`s q, the ratio of stock market value to book value of tangible assets. We then investigate...

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Selection Effects with Heterogeneous Firms

Neary, Peter; Mrazova, Monika - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2011

We provide a general characterization of which firms will select alternative ways of serving a market. If and only if firms' maximum profits are supermodular in production and market-access costs, more efficient firms will select into the activity with lower market-access costs. Our result...

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Natural resources, export structure and investment

Bond, Steve; Bond, Stephen R.; Malik, Adeel - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008

We present cross-country empirical evidence on the role of natural resources in explaining long-run differences in private investment as a share of GDP in a sample of 72 developing countries. Our empirical results suggest important differences between oil and non-oil resources. While revenue...

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A Dissection of Trading Capital: Cultural persistence of trade in the aftermath of the fall of the Iron Curtain

Rauch, Ferdinand; Beestermoller, Matthias - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014

We show that the countries of the former Austro-Hungarian monarchy trade significantly more with one another in the aftermath of the collapse of the Iron Curtain than predicted by a standard gravity model. This trade surplus declines linearly and monotonically over time. We argue that these...

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Together at Last: Trade Costs, Demand Structure, and Welfare

Neary, Peter; Mrazova, Monika - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014

We show that relaxing the assumption of CES preferences in monopolistic competition has surprising implications when trade is restricted. Integrated and segmented markets behave differently, the latter typically exhibiting reciprocal dumping. Globalization and lower trade costs have...

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Intra-National Protectionism in China: Evidence from the Public Disclosure of 'Illegal' Drug Advertising

Eberhardt, Markus; Wang, Zheng; Yu, Zhihong - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2013

This paper provides micro-level evidence that drug advertising regulations and inspections in China are used by local governments to discriminate against firms from outside the province. Furthermore, the degree of discrimination varies across firms in that drug manufacturers which have closer...

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