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Marry for What: Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India
Duflo, Esther; Banerjee, Abhijit; Ghatak, Maitreesh; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
This paper studies the role played by caste, education and other social and economic attributes in arranged marriages among middle-class Indians. We use a unique data set on individuals who placed matrimonial advertisements in a major newspaper, the responses they received, how they ranked them,...
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Manufacturing Growth and the Lives of Bangladeshi Women
Heath, Rachel; Mobarak, A. Mushfiq - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We study the effects of explosive growth in the Bangladeshi ready-made garments industry on the lives on Bangladeshi women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment decisions of women who gain greater access to garment sector jobs to women living further away from...
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Export Markets and Labor Allocation in a Low-income Country
Pavcnik, Nina; McCaig, Brian - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We study the effects of an export shock on labor allocation across household businesses and employers in the formal … enterprise sector in a low-income country, Vietnam. We find that workers reallocate from household businesses to employers in the … internationally integrated provinces and in younger cohorts. Labor productivity of household businesses is relatively low, so our …
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Trade and Inequality in India
Krishna, Pravin; Sethupathy, Guru - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
examines Theil inequality as well as other inequality measures constructed using Indian household expenditure survey data from …
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Labor Reallocation in Response to Trade Reform
Muendler, Marc-Andreas; Menezes-Filho, Naércio Aquino - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Tracking individual workers across jobs after Brazil's trade liberalization in the 1990s shows that tariff cuts trigger worker displacements, but neither exporters nor comparative-advantage sectors absorb trade-displaced labor. On the contrary, exporters separate from significantly more and hire...
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Trade Adjustment and Human Capital Investments: Evidence from Indian Tariff Reform
Edmonds, Eric; Pavcnik, Nina; Topalova, Petia - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
Do the short and medium term adjustment costs associated with trade liberalization influence schooling and child labor decisions? We examine this question in the context of India's 1991 tariff reforms. Overall, in the 1990s, rural India experienced a dramatic increase in schooling and decline in...
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Preparing to Export
Muendler, Marc-Andreas; Molina, Danielken - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
-market access exerts a labor demand shock, for which exporters actively prepare with selective hiring, and with the idea that a few …
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Trade and Tasks: An Exploration over Three Decades in Germany
Becker, Sascha O.; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper combines representative worker-level data that cover time-varying job-level task characteristics of an economy over a long time span with sector-level bilateral trade data for merchandize and services. We carefully create longitudinally consistent workplace characteristics from the...
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Trade Reform and Regional Dynamics: Evidence From 25 Years of Brazilian Matched Employer-Employee Data
Dix-Carneiro, Rafael; Kovak, Brian K. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
We empirically study the dynamics of labor market adjustment following the Brazilian trade reform of the 1990s. We use variation in industry-specific tariff cuts interacted with initial regional industry mix to measure trade-induced local labor demand shocks, and then examine regional and...
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Trade Liberalization and the Skill Premium: A Local Labor Markets Approach
Dix-Carneiro, Rafael; Kovak, Brian K. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
on the evolution of the skill premium between 1991 and 2010. The methodology uses widely available household survey data …
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