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Intangible Knowledge Capital and Innovation in China
Fleisher, Belton M.; McGuire, William H.; Smith, Adam … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Intangible knowledge capital (IKC) – technology produced by workers but not embodied in them – can offset the "middle income trap" as China exhausts the benefits of international technology transfer. IKC is productivity-enhancing among Chinese enterprises – more so in domestically owned...
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The Gender Gap in Early Career in Mongolia
Pastore, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Relatively little is known about the youth labour market in general and about gender differences in Mongolia, one of the fifty poorest countries in the world. This paper addresses the issue by taking advantage of a School to Work Survey (SWTS) on young people aged 15-29 years carried out in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008517976
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The Dynamics of Women's Labour Supply in Developing Countries
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Umana-Aponte, Marcela - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
that the within-country relationship of women's employment and income is, on average, negative in Asia and Latin America … and potentially correlated shocks. In Asia and Latin America, characteristics that strengthen counter-cyclical responses … self-employment amongst women. In Asia and Latin America, there is a parallel rise in paid employment and a sharp drop in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008470355
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Can Private School Growth Foster Universal Literacy? Panel Evidence from Indian Districts
Pal, Sarmistha; Kingdon, Geeta - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set the agenda for the attainment of universal literacy by 2015 primarily to be delivered by the state sector. This agenda tends to ignore the significant private school growth around the world since early 1990s, thus initiating the policy debate as to whether...
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Changing Fertility Preferences One Migrant at a Time: The Impact of Remittances on the Fertility Rate
Naufal, George; Vargas-Silva, Carlos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
In this article we study the relationship between workers' remittances and fertility rate of the remittance receiving country. We identify two main channels by which remittances transfers affect fertility. First, migrants may adopt and later transmit to the household the ideas, values and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762189
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Does Human Capital Protect Workers against Exogenous Shocks? South Africa in the 2008-2009 Crisis
Leung, Ron; Stampini, Marco; Vencatachellum, Désiré - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
The financial and economic crisis of 2008 and 2009 has taken its toll on the South African economy. The economy contracted for the first time since 1998, and entered recession during the fourth quarter of 2008. The GDP contraction was soon transmitted to the labor market. Between the second...
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How Did the Great Recession Affect Different Types of Workers? Evidence from 17 Middle-Income Countries
Cho, Yoonyoung; Newhouse, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper examines how different types of workers in 17 middle-income countries were affected by labor market retrenchment during the great recession. Impacts on different types of workers varied by country and were only weakly related to the severity of the shock. Among active workers, youth...
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Wage Rigidity and Disinflation in Emerging Countries
Messina, Julián; Sanz-de-Galdeano, Anna - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper examines the consequences of rapid disinflation for downward wage rigidities in two emerging countries, Brazil and Uruguay, relying on high quality matched employer-employee administrative data. Downward nominal wage rigidities are more important in Uruguay, while wage indexation is...
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International Financial Integration and Real Exchange Rate Long-Run Dynamics in Emerging Countries: Some Panel Evidence
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Hadj Amor, Thouraya; Rault, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
America, Asia and MENA). It covers the period 1979-2004, and carries out “second-generation” tests for non-stationary panels …
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The Effect of Renewable Energy Development on Carbon Emission Reduction: An Empirical Analysis for the EU-15 Countries
Abolhosseini, Shahrouz; Heshmati, Almas; Altmann, Jörn - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
The increased concerns about climate change have made renewable energy sources an important topic of research. Several scholars have applied different methodologies to examine the relationships between energy consumption and economic growth of individual and groups of countries and to analyze...
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