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Impact of the Global Economic Crisis on the Employment and Labour Market of Bangladesh A Preliminary Assessment
Rahman, Mustafizur; Moazzem, Khondaker Golam; Hossain, … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
ILOs initiative to assess the impact of the financial crisis on employment and labour market of South Asian economies and develop alternative policy responses to mitigate the adverse social effects of the crisis on the world of work, especially the vulnerable groups, is timely and addresses a...
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Policy Dilemmas in India - The Impact of Changes in Agricultural Prices on Rural and Urban Poverty
Polaski, Sandra; Panda, Manoj; Ganesh-Kumar, A.; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
Trade policy reforms which lead to changes in world prices of agricultural commodities or domestic policies aimed at affecting agricultural prices are often seen as causing a policy dilemma : a fall in agricultural prices benefits poor urban consumers but hurts poor rural producers, while a rise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363420
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The Harris-Todaro Hypothesis
Khan, M. Ali - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
The Harris-Todaro hypothesis replaces the equality of wages by the equality of expected wages as the basic equilibrium condition in a segmented but homogeneous labour market, and in so doing it generates an equilibrium level of urban unemployment when a mechanism for the determination of urban...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365084
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Rain, ElectionS and MOney : The impact of voter turnout on distributive policy outcomes in japan
Horichi, Yusaku; Saito, Jun - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
-level data set from Japan, we show that the turnout effect on the amounts of intergovernmental fiscal transfers is indeed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363308
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Heterogeneity in Returns to Work Experience : A Dynamic Model of Female Labor Force Participation
Yamada, Ken - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
This paper provides structural estimates of heterogeneous returns to work experience for Japanese married women. A dynamic model of labor force participation is used to account for dynamic self-selection into employment. Heterogeneity is incorporated into the model in a way that allows for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363356
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The Making of Asia’s First Bilateral FTA : Origins and Regional Implications of the Japan–Singapore Economic Partnership Agreement
Terada, Takashi - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
when he and his Singaporean counterpart, Goh Chok Tong, signed the Japan-Singapore Economic Partnership Agreement (JSEPA … global trade liberalisation. This paper aims to examine how and why Japan and Singapore decided to pursue FTAs, what … mainly through Singapores initial offer to exclude agricultural products from tariff elimination. But Japan faced problems in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363377
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JAPAN’S APPROACH TO ASIA PACIFIC ECONOMIC COOPERATION
Drysdale, Peter - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 1998
Since emerging as a leading industrial economy, Japan has played an important role in promoting Asia Pacific economic … cooperation. Japan has been instrumental in every major initiative in economic cooperation in the region over the past three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363405
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Economic Integration in Northeast Asia : Search for a Feasible Approach
Cheong, Inkyo - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 1999
According to simulation results, the formation of an FTA would substantially improve Koreas and Japans trade balances, while China would experience a sizeable increase in its trade deficit. This indicates that simple barriers (NTBs) within a short period of time is not a feasible approach for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363462
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Changing Commercial Policy in Japan During 1985–2010
Kawai, Masahiro; Urata, Shujiro - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
changing structure of trade, FDI and economy that underlay policy changes. We argue that until the late 1990s Japan adopted a … Japan-US bilateralism sometimes resulted in managed trade and encountered negative perceptions of the US approach in Japan … integration of Japan with the Asian and global economies. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363476
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A Study on Financial Deficit and Declining Birthrate â۠From the Viewpoint of “Children as a Social Security Revenue Sourceâ€Â
Oguro, Kazumasa; Yuyama, Shoichiro - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
With a declining birthrate and an aging population, Japan is increasingly finding itself in deeper financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363524