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India's Approach to Capital Account Liberalization

Prasad, Eswar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

In this paper, I analyze India's approach to capital account liberalization through the lens of the new literature on financial globalization. India's authorities have taken a cautious and calibrated path to capital account opening, which has served the economy well in terms of reducing its...

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A Pragmatic Approach to Capital Account Liberalization

Prasad, Eswar; Rajan, Raghuram G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Cross-country regressions suggest little connection from foreign capital inflows to more rapid economic growth for developing countries and emerging markets. This suggests that the lack of domestic savings is not the primary constraint on growth in these economies, as implicitly assumed in the...

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Educational Production in East Asia: The Impact of Family Background and Schooling Policies on Student Performance

Woessmann, Ludger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

and Singapore, while Hong Kong and Thailand achieve more equalized outcomes. There is no evidence that smaller classes …

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Labor Market and Globalization: A Comparison of the Latin American and the East Asian Experiences in the 1980s and 1990s

Bruno, Randolph Luca - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

structures. On the one hand we look at Argentina, Brazil and Chile, on the other hand we analyse South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand …

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Income vs. Consumption Inequality in South Korea: Evaluating Stochastic Dominance Rankings by Various Household Attributes

Heshmati, Almas; Rudolf, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Using four rounds (1999, 2002, 2005, 2008) of the Korean Labor and Income Panel Study (KLIPS), this article examines determinants of household income and consumption levels and inequalities. Unconditional as well as conditional stochastic dominance (SD) tests are performed by year, by household...

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Determinants of Financial Rewards from Industry-University Collaboration in South Korea

Han, Junghee; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

The external circumstances for universities have been changing rapidly. In order to be competitive, survive, and flourish, universities have shown a growing enthusiasm to generate financial revenues externally. The literature refers to this phenomenon as academic capitalism, defined as the...

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Breastfeeding Practices and Parental Employment in Japan

Kobayashi, Miki; Usui, Emiko - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

children. However, few studies have yet investigated the factors which may promote or inhibit breastfeeding practices in Japan … breastfeeding practices in Japan. …

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Pappa Ante Portas: The Retired Husband Syndrome in Japan

Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

The "Retired Husband Syndrome", that affects the mental health of wives of retired men around the world, has been anecdotally documented but never formally investigated. We use Japanese micro data and the exogenous variation generated by the 2006 revision of the Japanese Elderly Employment...

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Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, and the Great Recession: Lessons from Japan's Lost Decade

Kambayashi, Ryo; Kato, Takao - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

-term consequences for the labor market structure. To this end, we examine Japan's Lost Decade, the original Great Recession that … during Japan's Lost Decade there was a significant shift of the composition of employment toward "bad jobs." Second, we find … women in Japan made considerable progress in shifting the composition of their employment toward "good jobs" during Japan …

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Is Longer Unemployment Rewarded with Longer Job Tenure?

Kohara, Miki; Sasaki, Masaru; Machikita, Tomohiro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper examines whether or not a prolonged unemployment period can raise the quality of job matching after unemployment. We focus on job tenure as an indicator of a good quality job match after unemployment. We match two sets of Japanese administrative data compiled by the public employment...

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