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Skilled emigration and exchange rate : theory and empirics
Paul, Saumik; Ouyang, Alice; Li, Rachel Cho Suet - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014
In this paper we build a theoretical model on the wage effect of skilled emigration to the fluctuations in real exchange rate through the relative prices of nontradables. Our theoretical model predicts that skilled emigration is associated with an increase in the prices of nontradable, which in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105827
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Career Crisis? Impacts of Financial Shock on the Entry-Level Labor Market: Evidence from Thailand
Machikita, Tomohiro - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2006
. Convincing evidence from the Thailand Labor Force Survey support the hypothesis that both employment opportunities and wages … crisis experienced a 10% reduction in the overtime wages compared to new entrants before the crisis. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005222508
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Mass Unemployment in South Africa: A Comparative Study with East Asia
Hirano, Katsumi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005744799
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Are Job Networks Localized in a Developing Economy? Search Methods for Displaced Workers in Thailand
Machikita, Tomohiro - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2006
Effects of localized personal networks on the choice of search methods are studied in this paper using evidence of displaced workers by establishment closure in Thailand Labor Force Survey, 2001. For the blocks/villages level, there is less significant evidence of local interactions between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005222476
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Agglomeration Economies in Japan: Technical Efficiency, Growth and Unemployment
Mitra, Arup; Sato, Hajime - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2006
faster economic growth and higher (lower) levels of employment (unemployment). Using the prefecture level data for each of … growth varies positively with external scale variable(s) and unemployment rate tends to fall with respect to growth and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005222496
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Taiwan strait crises and Chiang Kai-shek's strategic thinking : a perspective from the Taiwan's archive
Matsumoto, Haruka - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014
mainland China and the defense of the Da-chen islands before and after the initiation of the First Taiwan Strait Crisis in 1954 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010938732
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Assessing agglomeration economies in the Yangzi River Delta, China : a bayesian spatial econometric approach
Hashiguchi, Yoshihiro; Chen, Kuang-hui - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2012
the agglomeration effect, in the Yangtze River Delta, China. A spatial Durbin model is presented that makes explicit the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010941676
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A closer look at the diffusion of ChinaGAP
Lei, Lei - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015
To enhance Chinese agricultural production, improve food quality, build consumer trust, and encourage the export of agricultural products, the Chinese government designed the Chinese version of Good Agricultural Practice (ChinaGAP) based on the main principles of the GlobalGAP combining the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213710
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The voices and protests of China's labour NGOs and their effort to promote migrant worker rights
Yamaguchi, Mami - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015
Labour NGOs in China are relatively new organizations that emerged in the 1990s and have spread during the 2000s …. Migrant workers in China are weak both socially and economically and have been lacking ways of voicing grievances and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213713
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Product quality and intra-industry trade
Ito, Tadashi; Okubo, Toshihiro - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014
quality improvement of Chinese export goods in its IIT with Germany. We compare the case of China with those of Eastern … between Germany and Eastern European countries is clearly narrowing. However, China's export prices to Germany are much lower … than Germany's export prices to China, and this gap has not narrowed over the last 23 years. This is at odds with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213714