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reductions across industries associated with the BTA and differences in industry employment shares across Vietnamese provinces … adolescents (15 to 18) and young adults (19 to 29). The BTA also increased household expenditures, slightly decreased employment … among nonmigrant adults and increased employment among migrant adults. Among adolescents, enrolment increased among non …
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The COVID-19 pandemic led to stark reductions in economic activity in India. We employ CMIE's Consumer Pyramids …, that reservation wages fell, implying that the risk of COVID did not reduce the value of employment. Third, we find that …
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We use a large, representative panel data set from India with monthly data on household finances to examine the … incidence of economic harms during the COVID pandemic. We observe a sharp spike in poverty, peaking during India's sharp but …
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persistence is that treated households take better advantage of opportunities to diversify into lucrative wage employment …
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This paper estimates a household saving rate equation for India and Korea using long-term time series data for the 1975 … impact on the household saving rate in both India and Korea, even after controlling for the usual suspects such as the aged … and youth dependency ratios and income. It has a negative impact in India, where the bride's side has to pay substantial …
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patterns is important, especially for the poor. Combining anthropometric and time-use data for India, we construct a …
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the long-term economic benefits of India's national program of childhood vaccinations, known as the Universal Immunization … Programme (UIP). We combine individual-level data from the 68th round of the National Sample Survey of India (2011-2012) with …
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self-help group lending program in rural Bihar, India (Hoffmann et al., 2021) to demonstrate that well-functioning groups …
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China and India have been particularly strong. Then workers in occupations that are exposed to inshoring and offshore …We examine the impact on U.S. labor markets of offshore outsourcing in services to China and India. We also consider … China and India. Using March-to-March matched CPS data for 1996-2006 we examine the impacts on (1) occupation and industry …
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or younger. In contrast, surviving Indian plants exhibit little growth in terms of either employment or output. Mexico is … intermediate to India and the U.S. in these respects: the average 40 year old Mexican plant employs twice as many workers as an … aggregate manufacturing productivity on the order of 25% in India and Mexico relative to the U.S …
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