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"The authors provide new evidence on the impacts of trade reforms on wages and wage inequality in developing countries … wages and wage inequality. After setting up unusual historical data sets of trends in tariffs, trends in wages, and trends …) has reduced wages, and (2) has increased wage inequality. "--World Bank web site …
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firms, under what circumstances, and performance adopt such technology. To measure performance, productivity wages, and net … from the National Survey of Employment, Wages, Technology and Training (ENESTYC), and the National Industrial Survey (EIA …
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firms, under what circumstances, and performance adopt such technology. To measure performance, productivity wages, and net … from the National Survey of Employment, Wages, Technology and Training (ENESTYC), and the National Industrial Survey (EIA …
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"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...
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The gender wage gap in Thailand is much less significant than in most countries in the world. The average hourly wage … among female workers, in fact, slightly surpasses that of males. This highly equitable gender wage pattern is seen at all … levels of the wage distribution. Female representation is also quite equal at all levels of wages; the likelihood of finding …
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