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Preference for Public Sector Jobs and Wait Unemployment : A Micro Data Analysis
Hyder, Asma - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
This paper exploits responses on the stated preferences for public sector jobs among a sample of unemployed in Pakistan to inform on the existence of public sector job queues. The empirical approach allowed job preference to influence unemployment duration. The potential wage advantage an...
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Pakistan’s Wage Structure, during 1990-91–2006-07
Irfan, Mohammad - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
This paper attempts to document changes in the wage levels of different categories of workers employed in various segments of the labour market during the period 1990-912006-07, according to the information given in the labour force surveys. Wage structure can be analysed from different angles....
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Do Labor Intensive Industries Generate Employment? Evidence from firm level survey in India
Das, Deb Kusum; Kalita, Gunajit - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
This study attempts to address the issue of declining labour intensity in Indias organized manufacturing in order to understand the constraints on employment generation in the labour intensive sectors. Using primary survey data covering 252 labour intensive manufacturing-exporting firms across...
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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...
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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...
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The Economics of Price Scissors : An Empirical Investigation for China.
Lin, Justin Yifu; Yu, Miaojie - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
agricultural rationing, we first check if the model stands up to China's data from 1949-1992, we find that the importance of … consumption is also less than that of investment. Such findings are consistent with the reality of China. …
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How Much Do We Know about the Impact of the Economic Downturn on the Employment of Migrants?
Meng, Xin; Kong, Sherry Tao; Zhang, Dandan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
The employment shock of late 2008 in the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) may have been a product of three different …
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Estimating the impacts of demographic and policy changes on pension deficit : a simple method and application to China
Yi, Zeng - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
employment rate. Our illustrative application to China shows that gradually increasing the current low minimum age of retirement …
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CHINA’S PARTICIPATION IN GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL NEGOTIATIONS
Tian, Huifang; Whalley, John - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
In the paper we discuss China's participation in both the 2009 Copenhagen negotiations on a post-Kyoto global climate … change regime currently under way and out beyond Copenhagen in further negotiations likely to follow. China is now both the …. In the Copenhagen negotiation, there will be strong pressure on China to take on emissions reduction commitments and …
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