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Demographic Complementarities and Outsourcing : Implications and Challenges for India
Asher, Mukul G.; Nandy, Amarendu - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
argues that demographic complementarities with high-income countries provide India with one-time opportunity to sustain its … growth rate and occupy all segments of global outsourcing and offshoring activities. India has used the labor cost advantage … development, diversification and upgradation policies India can continue to atleast maintain its global market share, and help …
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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
This article derives a simple method for projecting pension deficit as percent of GDP in future years based on commonly available population forecasting and a few predictable economic and policy variables. Compared with the classic basic equilibrium equation of pension funds, our new formula...
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Why Does Japan’s Saving Rate Decline So Rapidly?
Katayama, Kentaro - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
factors have the same downtrend. Structural factors, such as demography and changes of time preference, would keep the current …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363835
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What Happened to Child Labor in Indonesia during the Economic Crisis : The Trade-off between School and Work
Priyambada, Agus; Suryahadi, Asep; Sumarto, Sudarno - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
Although in general less prevalent than other developing countries at similar stage of development, the problem of child labor in Indonesia is significant. Like in other countries, this study finds that there is a strong link between the child labor phenomenon and poverty. The profile of child...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363342
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SINGAPORE'S BEVERIDGE CURVE : A Comparative Study of the Unemployment and Vacancy Relationship for Selected East Asian Countries
Teo, Edward; Thangavelu, Shandre M.; Quah, Elizabeth - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
This paper explores the relationship between unemployment (U) and job vacancies (V) in the Singapore labour market …. Empirical analysis using the framework of the UV Curve (also known as the Beveridge Curve) indicates that Singapores labour … suggesting that the labour market is less responsive in recent years. This might suggest the possibility that employers are now …
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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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Climate Change Mitigation and Green Growth in Developing Asia
Howes, Stephen; Wyrwoll, Paul - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
related domestic issues, the governments of the People’s Republic of China, India, Indonesia, Thailand, and Viet Nam have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277994
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How Should We Bank With Foreigners?—An Empirical Assessment of Lending Behavior of International Banks to Six East Asian Economies
Pontines, Victor; Siregar, Reza Y. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
The possible crucial role of international bank lending in transmitting adverse economic disturbance from developed economies to emerging economies in the 2008–2009 global financial crisis has placed capital flows into sharper scrutiny in academic and policy discussions. The...
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Central Banking for Financial Stability in Asia
Kawai, Masahiro; Morgan, Peter J. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
A key lesson of the 2007–2009 global financial crisis (GFC) was the importance of containing systemic financial risk and the need for a “macroprudential†approach to surveillance and regulation that can identify system-wide risks and take appropriate actions to maintain...
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New Measures of the Trilemma Hypothesis : Implications for Asia
Ito, Hiro; Kawai, Masahiro - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
We develop a new set of indexes of exchange rate stability, monetary policy independence, and financial market openness as the metrics for the trilemma hypothesis. In our exploration, we take a different and more nuanced approach than the previous indexes developed by Aizenman, Chinn, and Ito...
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