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Teck, Hoon Hian - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005

What forces have shaped our nations employment and remuneration record so far? Where is Singapores unemployment rate … unemployment rate unchanged. Moreover, a one-percentage point shortfall of the real GDP growth rate below 7.1 percent in any given … year results in a rise in the unemployment rate of 0.12 percentage points over the previous year. Consequently, if the …

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RURAL NON-AGRICULTURAL EMPLOYMENT IN INDIA - The Residual Sector Hypothesis Revisited

Murty, C. S. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005

conditions should be satisfied : (1) the unemployment rate should be positively related to the RNAE and (2) the unemployment rate …

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Effects of Trade liberalisation, Environmental and Labour Regulations on Employment in India's Organised Textile Sector

Badri Narayanan G. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005

In recent years, employment has fallen in the organised textile sector despite an aggregate rise in output and capital. This paper analyses the role of various factors that in uence employment using 3- digit classication of Indian textile industry from 1973-74 to 1997-98. Our results document...

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IMPACT OF TRADE ON SERVICE SECTOR EMPLOYMENT IN INDIA

Mitra, Arup - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009

This study makes an attempt to assess the impact of trade liberalization on services sector employment. Based on the time series macro data, the elasticity of organised services sector employment with respect to value added and exports and imports have been estimated. After controlling for...

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Salient Aspects of the Growth Story of Indian Railways 1981-82 through 2007-08

Alivelu, G. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010

This paper makes an attempt to provide a broad overview of the salient aspects of the growth story of Indian Railways (IR) since independence. More specifically, the study aims to analyse the trends of output and employment for the period 1981-82 through 2007-08. The entire study period is...

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A Structuralist Model of the Small Open Economy in the Short, Medium and Long Run

Hoon, Hian Teck; Phelps, Edmund S. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005

Open-economy macroeconomics contains a monetary model in the Keynesian tradition that is deemed serviceable for analyzing the short run and a nonmonetary neoclassical model thought capable of handling the long run. But do the Keynesian and neoclassical models meet the challenges thrown out by...

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Effects of Technological Improvement in the ICT-Producing Sector on Business Activity

Hoon, Hian Teck - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006

It seems to be taken for granted by many commentators that the sharp decline in prices of computers, telecommunications equipment and software resulting from the technological improvements in the information and communications technology (ICT)-producing sector is good for jobs and is a major...

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A Structuralist Model of the Small Open Economy in the Short, Medium and Long Run

Hoon, Hian Teck; Phelps, Edmund S. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007

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Future Fiscal and Budgetary Shocks

Hoon, Hian Teck; Phelps, Edmund S. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007

We study the effects of future tax and budgetary shocks in a non-monetary and possibly non-Ricardian economy. An (unanticipated) temporary labor tax cut to be effective on a given future datea delayed debt bombcauses at once a drop in the (unit) value placed on the firms business asset, the...

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