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Off and running? : technology, trade, and the rising demand for skilled workers in Latin America
Sánchez-Páramo, Carolina - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523420
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Trade reforms, farm productivity, and poverty in Bangladesh
Klytchnikova, Irina - 2006
"This paper analyzes the distributional impacts of trade reforms in rural areas of Bangladesh. The liberalization of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522082
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Implications of WTO agreements and unilateral trade policy reforms for poverty in Bangladesh : short versus long-run impacts
Annabi, Nabil - 2006
poverty in Bangladesh. They use a sequential dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) model, which takes into account … accumulation effects, allowing for long-run analysis. The study is based on the 2000 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) of Bangladesh … scenario has negative implications for the overall macroeconomy, household welfare, and poverty in Bangladesh. Terms of trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522086
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Bangladesh : Improving Competitiveness through Trade Policy Reforms
World Bank - 2012
In an increasingly competitive, globalizing world, Bangladesh needs to rationalize its tariff structure and lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553128
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Can maquila booms reduce poverty? : evidence from Honduras
De Hoyos, Rafael E. - 2008
"This paper identifies and estimates the strength of the reduction in poverty linked to improved opportunities for women in the expanding maquila sector. A simulation exercise shows that, at a given point in time, poverty in Honduras would have been 1.5 percentage points higher had the maquila...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010520970
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Trends in tariff reforms and trends in wage inequality
Galiano, Sebastian - 2006
"The authors provide new evidence on the impacts of trade reforms on wages and wage inequality in developing countries. While most of the current literature on the topic achieves identification by comparing outcomes before and after one episode of trade liberalization across industries, they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522156
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Trade liberalization and labor market adjustment in Brazil
Blom, Andreas (contributor) - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523452
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Wage subsidy and labor market flexibility in South Africa
Go, Delfin S. (contributor) - 2009
"In this paper, the authors use a highly disaggregate general equilibrium model to analyze the feasibility of a wage subsidy to unskilled workers in South Africa, isolating and estimating its potential employment effects and fiscal cost. They capture the structural characteristics of the labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394165
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International economic activities and the demand for skilled labor : evidence from Brazil and China
Fajnzylber, Pablo - 2004
"Increases in international economic integration can lead to greater specialization according to comparative advantage, but also to the diffusion of skill-biased technologies. In developing countries characterized by relative abundance of unskilled labor, these factors can have opposite effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522908