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Labor market impact of export in a commodity-dependent nation: The case of Indonesia

Laksono, Riandy; Oktiyanto, Fajar; Vadila, Yessi - 2024

Does export lead to improvement in labor market outcomes? The answer to this is not always clear from the literature …. Despite the rising role of export markets, informality is still high, and inequality is worsening in many developing economies …. In addition, export expansion driven by commodities has also been linked with the Dutch disease phenomenon. Using the …

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Globalization, infrastructure, and inclusive growth

Winters, L. Alan - 2014

This paper covers threes issues: first, defining and measuring inclusive growth; second, the relationship between international trade and inequality; and third, the links between infrastructure and inequality. Both international trade and infrastructure make it easier for people to exchange...

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Examining the perception of women's role in India's blue economy: A systematic literature review

Behera, Arakhita - 2024

The primary objective of this paper is to conduct a systematic literature review on the perceptions and attitudes of women's employment and leadership in India's blue economy. The study uses a systematic literature review to look at studies and reports published from 1 January 2000 to 5 November...

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Impact of services trade liberalization on employment and people movement in South Asia

Chanda, Rupa - 2011

Services have been a key driver of overall economic growth in South Asia since the 1990s. This paper examines how the growth of services output, trade and investment have affected service sector employment in South Asia and the extent to which countries in this region are proactively undertaking...

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Internationalization of tertiary education services in Singapore

Toh, Mun-Heng - 2012

This paper traces the development of the education sector from its nascent stage of serving economic development needs to the internationalization stage of fulfilling Singapore's aspiration to be a global education hub. The state plays an important role in guiding and fostering development of...

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The exchange rate, diversification, and distribution in a modified Ricardian model with a continuum of goods

Razmi, Arslan - 2011

Several recent empirical and theoretical studies have revived interest in the relationship between the level of the exchange rate and economic development. This paper develops a dynamic model based on the Ricardian framework with a continuum of goods to consider the issue from a somewhat...

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Towards "Trade Policy Analysis 2.0": From national comparative advantage to firm-level trade data

Cernat, Lucian - 2015

This paper makes the case for the need to "upgrade" current analytical tools used for trade policy analysis and complement them with more detailed firm-level data. Such an upgrade should be based on the latest intellectual advancements in trade theories and the latest firm-level trade statistics...

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Adjustment to trade opening: The case of labor share in India's manufacturing industry

Gupta, Prachi; Helble, Matthias - 2018

The objective of this paper is to study how manufacturing plants in India adjusted to trade liberalization during the period 1998-99 to 2007-08. We estimate how the labor share changed due to tariff reduction. Our results indicate that a decline in output tariffs led to an increase in the labor...

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Export boom, employment bust? The paradox of Indonesia's displaced workers, 2000-2014

Shrestha, Rashesh; Coxhead, Ian - 2018

In Indonesia, an export boom and rapid, sustained gross domestic product (GDP) growth in the decade after 2000 was …

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Trade liberalization and the hukou system of the People's Republic of China: How migration frictions can amplify the unequal gains from trade

Zi, Yuan - 2018

Chinese workers have moved from inland areas to coastal cities, contributing to the PRC's manufacturing growth and export …

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