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Productivity Response to a Contract Change
Jayaraman, Rajshri - 2014
This paper studies the productivity impact of a contract change for tea pluckers in an Indian plantation. The contract, implemented at the end of a three-year cycle in which contracts are generally revised, was (a) the joint outcome of negotiations between twenty unions and plantations, (b)...
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Minimum Wage Incidence : The Case for Germany
Knabe, Andreas - 2008
Using data from the 2006 wave of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), this paper analyzes how a minimum wage affects employment, wage inequality, public expenditures, and aggregate income in the low-wage sector. It is shown that a statutory minimum wage of EUR 7.50 per hour would cost...
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Firm Response to Competitive Shocks : Evidence from China's Minimum Wage Policy
Hau, Harald - 2017
The large regional variation in minimum wage levels in the period 2002-08 in China implies that Chinese manufacturing firms experienced competitive shocks as a function of firm location and their low-wage employment share. We find that minimum wage hikes accelerate the input substitution from...
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The Regional Effects of a National Minimum Wage
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M. - 2018
We estimate the spatially differential effects of a nationally uniform minimum wage that was introduced in Germany in 2015. To this end, we use a micro data set covering the universe of employed and unemployed individuals in Germany from 2011 to 2016 and a difference‐in‐differences based...
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Decentralization and Foreign Aid Effectiveness : Do Aid Modality and Federal Design Matter in Poverty Alleviation?
Lessmann, Christian - 2014
This paper empirically studies the impact of decentralization on foreign aid effectiveness. For this purpose, we examine a commonly used empirical growth model, considering aid modality as well as different measures of political and fiscal decentralization. Our panel estimations reveal that...
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The Impact of School Lunches on Primary School Enrollment : Evidence from India's Midday Meal Scheme
Jayaraman, Rajshri - 2011
effects of India's midday meal scheme, which offers warm lunches, free of cost, to 120 million primary school children across … India and is the largest school feeding program in the world. To isolate the causal effect of the policy, we make use of …
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Disrupting Education? Experimental Evidence on Technology-Aided Instruction in India
Muralidharan, Karthik - 2017
outcomes in middle school grades in urban India, using a lottery that provided students with a voucher to cover program costs …
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Economy Wide Impact of the Trade Integration between Japan and India : A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis
Bhattacharyay, Biswanath - 2014
Japan and India signed the much-awaited Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) on 16th February 2011. The …, the study evaluates the economy wide impact of the proposed CEPA between India and Japan at 2020. The study has used a … India and Japan in 2020 after tariff reduction compared to Business as Usual (BAU) scenario. A marginal export growth is …
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Food for Fuel : The Effect of U.S. Biofuel Mandate on Poverty in India
Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Hubert, Marie-Helene; Ural … - 2021
RFS on world food prices and their impact on household level consumption and wage incomes in India. We first develop a … losses are greater among urban households. However, more poor people in India live in villages, so rural poverty impacts are …
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Gains and Losses of India-China Trade Cooperation - A Gravity Model Impact Analysis
Bhattacharya, Swapan K.; Bhattacharyay, Biswa N. - 2021
As revealed by the trade intensity indices, India and the People's Republic of China have significant bilateral trade … losses in imports of both India and China due to different preferential trading arrangements and free-trade arrangements … using the gravity model. Empirical results show that in the short run India's potential gain is relatively lower compared to …
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