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Skilled and Unskilled Wages in a Globalizing World, 1968-1998
Chor, Davin - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
This paper constructs a data set on purchasing-power-parity (PPP) adjusted skilled and unskilled wages in 139 countries … Oostendorp (2000) Occupational Wages Around the World (OWW) le. It nds strong evidence for the existence of well … real wages, implying that the claim of "Divergence, Big Time" (Pritchett 1997) has to be qualied when factor markets are …
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Pakistan’s Wage Structure, during 1990-91–2006-07
Irfan, Mohammad - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
, adjusted for inflation, yields a 0.7 percent trend growth rate in real wages for the 1990-07 period. Real wage growth rate at … avoided. In contrast, there hardly has been any sizeable positive impact on the real wages of the informal sector workers …
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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 … when a mechanism for the determination of urban wages is specified. This article reviews work in which the Harris …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365084
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Asia and The G20
Drysdale, Peter; Willis, Sébastien - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2013
The industrial transformation of Asia is a development on a scale unprecedented in human history. Following the industrial revolution towards the end of the eighteenth century, Europe and North America each in turn came to dominate the world economy and global power. Now economic weight is...
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Joining Pre-existing International Production Networks : Implications for India’s Economic Integration to East Asia
Suh, Jeongmeen; Kim, Jong Duk - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2013
This study provides a conceptual framework to explain what kinds of difficulties a late-follower will suffer from when it tries to join pre-existing International Production Networks (IPNs). We consider the total production cost minimization problem by a multinational company (MNC) in allocating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278003
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Impact of Production Linkages on Industrial Upgrading in ASEAN, the People’s Republic of China, and India : Organizational Evidence of a Global Supply Chain
Machikita, Tomohiro; Ueki, Yasushi - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
This paper presents a simple model of industrial upgrading as a result of backward and forward information linkages between upstream and downstream relations. It also serves as an empirical investigation of the impact of mutual knowledge exchange on the knowledge production function using data...
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Fiscal Policy Issues for India after the Global Financial Crisis (2008–2010)
Kumar, Rajiv; Soumya, Alamuru - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
The need for fiscal consolidation and sustainability is one of the key macroeconomic issues confronting Indian economy. This paper attempts to understand India’s current fiscal situation, its likely future development, and its impact on the economy in the context of a weak...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278027
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Services as a New Engine of Growth for ASEAN, the People’s Republic of China, and India
Shepherd, Ben; Pasadilla, Gloria - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
with the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and India (“the ACI countriesâ€), are no strangers to this underlying trend … regional economies such as India and the Philippines. There is clear scope for policymakers to support expansion of this kind … General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). Conclusion of a services agreement with India could provide an additional spur …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278062
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Joining Pre-existing International Production Networks : Implications for India’s Economic Integration to East Asia
Suh, Jeongmeen; Kim, Jong Duk - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2013
This study provides a conceptual framework to explain what kinds of difficulties a late-follower will suffer from when it tries to join pre-existing International Production Networks (IPNs). We consider the total production cost minimization problem by a multinational company (MNC) in allocating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278071
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Association of Southeast Asian Nations, People's Republic of China, and India Growth and the Rest of the World : The Role of Trade
Lawrence, Robert Z. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2013
countries—on aggregate welfare, relative wages, and global emissions in the rest of the world. It outlines several analytical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278074