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Measurement of Globalization and Its Variations Among Countries, Regions and Over Time
Bhandari, Amit K.; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
contribution to the overall integration. Finally, we investigate the links between globalization and labor market in India …The process of globalization is an international economic order which has led to the progressive integration of the … technological innovation also provides impetus to the progressive integration of the nations. The elements of globalization include …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822966
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Trade Adjustment and Human Capital Investments: Evidence from Indian Tariff Reform
Edmonds, Eric V.; Pavcnik, Nina; Topalova, Petia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
decisions? We examine this question in the context of India's 1991 tariff reforms. Overall, in the 1990s, rural India … India's rise in schooling and a third of the fall in child labor during the 1990s can be explained by falling poverty and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761626
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Tariffs, Social Status, and Gender in India
Anukriti, S; Kumler, Todd J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and social strata. We compare women and births in rural Indian districts more or less exposed to tariff cuts. For low socioeconomic status women, tariff cuts increase the likelihood of...
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Labour Use and Its Adjustment in Indian Manufacturing Industries
Bhandari, Amit K.; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
, which evolved through structural transformation in the era of globalization. The analysis is based on a dynamic model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233871
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Economic Integration of Intermarried Labour Migrants, Refugees and Family Migrants to Sweden: Premium or Selection?
Irastorza, Nahikari; Bevelander, Pieter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We use Swedish register data to compare the employment and income of immigrants who intermarry natives versus those of immigrants who intramarry other immigrants in Sweden. We conduct the same analyses on three subsamples: labour migrants, refugees and family migrants. We find that intermarried...
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Integration, Labor Market Regulation, Lobbying, and Technological Change
Palokangas, Tapio K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper examines an economic union where oligopolistic firms produce by skilled and unskilled labor and do in-house R&D by skilled labor. The planner of the union accepts new members to the union, regulates the labor market through a minimum wage for unskilled labor and supports firms by...
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The Economic Integration of Forced Migrants: Evidence for Post-War Germany
Bauer, Thomas; Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
The flight and expulsion of Germans from Eastern Europe during and after World War II constitutes one of the largest forced population movements in history. We analyze the economic integration of these forced migrants and their offspring in West Germany. The empirical results suggest that even a...
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Testing Mundell’s Intuition of Endogenous OCA Theory
Warin, Thierry; Wunnava, Phanindra V.; Janicki, Hubert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper presents an empirical assessment of the endogenous optimum currency area theory. Frankel and Rose (1998) study the endogeneity of a currency union through the lens of international trade flows. Our study extends Frankel and Rose's model by using FDI flows to test the original theory...
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Efficiency and Effectiveness of Social Spending
Herrmann, Peter; Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
In this qualitative sociological and quantitative economic policy paper, we start out from the assumption of a very recent European Commission Background paper on the “Efficiency and effectiveness of social spending”, which says the effectiveness of social spending can be defined by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762307
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Economic Integration, Market Power and Technological Change
Palokangas, Tapio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
We examine a common market which expands by integrating new regions. Capitalists are strategically interdependent through the goods market and they improve their productivity through R&D. Production and R&D employ unionized workers. The purpose of integration is to maximize a weighed average of...
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