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"Most high and middle-income countries showed symptoms of skill-biased technological change in the 1980s. India-a low … income country-did not, perhaps because India's traditionally controlled economy may have limited the transfer of … skill-biased technological change did in fact arrive in India in the 1990s using panel data disaggregated by industry and …
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infrastructure. The report asseses India's investment climate from the perspective of industrial growth and focuses on investment … climate variations within India, analyzing the implications these variations have on industrial performance, as well as …
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handicapped by high unit labor cost, compared with main competitors like China and India. The empirical results show then? that …
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"During the 1990s, foreign direct investment in producer service sectors in Latin America was massive. Such investment may increase the quality of services, reduce their cost, and offer opportunities for knowledge spillovers to downstream users of the services. This paper examines the effects of...
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yields three main findings. First, increasing returns to education, especially for older workers, suggest that the expansion …, returns to seniority are rewarded only after a certain age. Third, workers exercise some power in the wage setting process but … their influence varies by linguistic group. In common-law countries, union presence benefits all workers equally, not just …
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"The author studies the determinants of total factor productivity (TFP) for manufacturing firms in Bangladesh using data from a recent survey. She obtains TFP measures by making use of firm-specific deflators for output and inputs. Controlling for industry, location, and year fixed effects, she...
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