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The NAFTA Tide: Lifting the Larger and Better Boats
Voicu, Alexandru; Calderon-Madrid, Angel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
economic environment and their contributions to aggregate productivity growth in the period following the implementation of the … North American Trade Agreement (NAFTA). In all industries, an overwhelming share of aggregate productivity growth is … export status and provides an explanation for the lackluster average productivity performance of exporting plants. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233776
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Adding Rungs to the Exporting Ladder: Plant-Level Exporting Dynamics and Total Factor Productivity Growth
Voicu, Alexandru - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
extensive and the intensive margins and the connection between exporting dynamics and plant-level total factor productivity … and account for a small share of gross, industry-level changes in exports, employment, output, and productivity. The … distribution of exports are positively correlated with changes in total factor productivity. Our results suggest that plants face …
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The Formation of Migrant Networks
Comola, Margherita; Mendola, Mariapia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper provides the first direct evidence on the determinants of link formation among immigrants in the host society. We use a purposely-designed survey on a representative sample of Sri Lankan immigrants living in Milan to study how migrants form social links among them and the extent to...
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Enrolment in Micro Life and Health Insurance: Evidences from Sri Lanka
Bendig, Mirko; Arun, Thankom - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Microinsurance is an emerging concept protecting households from the potentially catastrophic expenditures associated with family related shocks. Therefore, this paper presents evidence on the determinants of insurance participation using probit models on household survey data from Sri Lanka,...
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Risk Management among the Poor: The Case of Microfinancial Services
Arun, Thankom; Bendig, Mirko - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper argues that the level of financial services provision determines the risk management strategies among the poor. The paper estimates the determinants of the household’s use of one, two or all three types of microfinancial services applying ordered probit models and additionally...
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Poverty, Labour Markets and Trade Liberalization in Indonesia
Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Sparrow, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We measure the effects of trade liberalization over the period of 1993-2002 on regional poverty levels in 259 Indonesian regions, and investigate the labour market mechanisms behind these effects. The identification strategy relies on combining information on initial regional labour and product...
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On the Reversibility of Structural Reforms
Campos, Nauro F; Horváth, Roman - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
What are the factors that explain reversals in the implementation of structural reforms? Our main hypothesis is that reversals in different reforms are driven by different factors. This paper uses new reform indicators and presents novel evidence showing that (a) FDI inflows reduce the...
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Impact of Industrialization on Relative Female Survival: Evidence from Trade Policies
Chakraborty, Tanika - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper exploits an exogenous shift in the trade policy in India to study the impact of industrialization on son preference. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, we find that households are more likely to have a male child in regions with higher trade openness relative to regions with...
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Globalization and Labor Market Outcomes: Wage Bargaining, Search Frictions, and Firm Heterogeneity
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Prat, Julien; Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
it improves aggregate productivity net of transport costs. We show that this condition is likely to be met by a reduction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703196
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Child Labor and Trade Liberalization in Indonesia
Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Sparrow, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We examine the effects of trade liberalization on child work in Indonesia. Our estimation strategy identifies geographical differences in the effects of trade policy through district level exposure to reduction in import tariff barriers. We use a balanced panel of 261 districts, based on four...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005103269