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Anderson, James - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

Most empirical policy work requires the aggregation of policies. Trade policy aggregation exemplifies the aggregation problem poignantly, with thousands of highly dispersed trade barriers. This paper provides methods of policy aggregation that are consistent with two common objectives of...

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Worker Mobility in a Global Labor Market: Evidence from the United Arab Emirates

Nyarko, Yaw; Naidu, Suresh; Wang, Shing-Yi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

In 2011, a reform in the United Arab Emirates allowed any employer to renew a migrant's visa upon contract expiration without written permission from the initial employer. We find that the reform increased incumbent migrants' earnings and firm retention of these workers. This occurs despite an...

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Human capital and the Indian software industry

Arora, Ashish; Bagde, Surendra K. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

Though previous studies have noted the role of skilled labor in the growth of the Indian software industry, they have not empirically investigated its importance. In this study we study the effect of the supply of engineers, measured by engineering baccalaureate capacity, on the regional growth...

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Rural Income Volatility and Inequality in China

Whalley, John; Yue, Ximing - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

rural incomes in China. Current literature based on analyses of rural income volatility in China decomposes poverty into … poverty gap attributable to mean income over time being below the poverty line. Resulting estimates of 40-50 % transient … poverty point to the policy conclusion that poverty may be a less serious social problem than it appears in annual data due to …

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Implications of an Economic Theory of Conflict: Hindu-Muslim Violence in India

Ray, Debraj; Mitra, Anirban - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We model inter-group conflict driven by economic changes within groups. We show that if group incomes are low, increasing group incomes raises violence against that group, and lowers violence generated by it. We then apply the model to data on Hindu-Muslim violence in India. Our main result is...

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Human Capital Accounts: Choice of Rates and Construction of Volume Indices

Fraumeni, Barbara M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

Both human capital and nonhuman capital play an important role in economic growth. Estimates of nonhuman (physical) capital exist for many more countries than for human capital. Recently there has been a significant increase in the number of countries for which estimates of human capital exist,...

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Asymmetric Information and Remittances: Evidence from Matched Administrative Data

Nyarko, Yaw; Joseph, Thomas; Wang, Shing-Yi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

Using new data matching remittances and monthly payroll disbursals, we demonstrate how fluctuations in migrants' earnings in the United Arab Emirates affect their remittances. We consider three types of income fluctuations that are observable by families at home: seasonalities, weather shocks...

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Aging and Death under a Dollar a Day

Duflo, Esther; Banerjee, Abhijit V. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

This paper uses household survey data form several developing countries to investigate whether the poor (defined as those living under $1 or $2 dollars a day at PPP) and the non poor have different mortality rates in old age. We construct a proxy measure of longevity, which is the probability...

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Are the World’s Poorest Being Left Behind?

Ravallion, Martin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

The traditional approach to poverty measurement puts no explicit weight on success at increasing the typical level of … available surveys for the developing world over 1981-2011, the expected value of the floor is about half the $1.25 a day poverty …

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Growth, Trade, and Inequality

Grossman, Gene; Helpman, Elhanan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We introduce firm and worker heterogeneity into a model of innovation-driven endogenous growth. Individuals who differ in ability sort into either a research sector or a manufacturing sector that produces differentiated goods. Each research project generates a new variety of the differentiated...

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