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Globalization and State Capitalism : Assessing Vietnam's Accession to the WTO

Baccini, Leonardo - 2017

What do state-owned enterprises (SOEs) do? How do they respond to market incentives? Can we expect substantial efficiency gains from trade liberalization in economies with a strong presence of SOEs? Using a new dataset of Vietnamese firms we document a set of empirical regularities...

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Direct and Indirect Effects Based on Difference-in-Differences with an Application to Political Preferences Following the Vietnam Draft Lottery

Deuchert, Eva - 2018

provide an empirical application based on the Vietnam draft lottery, where we analyse the impact of the random draft lottery …

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Reducing Tariffs According to WTO Accession Rules : The Case of Vietnam

Fosse, Henrik Barslund - 2011

When Vietnam entered WTO in 2007 it was granted an accession period up to 2014. During this period tariffs would have … Vietnam has many state-owned enterprises that do not behave in a profit maximizing way. The model simulations show that the … of income will take place among the poor rural households in Vietnam. We propose other tariff reforms that both raise …

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The Interrelationship between Formal and Informal Decentralization and its Impact on Sub-Central Governance Performance : The Case of Vietnam

Vu, Thanh Thuy - 2012

formal and informal decentralization across 64 provinces of Vietnam. This paper finds that the formally decentralized system …

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Why Go to France or Germany, if You Could as Well Go to the UK or the US? Selective Features of Immigration to Four Major OECD Countries

Geis, Wido - 2008

Building on a new data set which is combined from national micro-data bases, we highlight differences in the structure of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all immigrants to the OECD world. Looking at immigrants by source...

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The Effect of Attitudes Toward Migrants on Migrant Skill Composition

Avdiu, Besart - 2018

I investigate the effect of attitudes toward migrants on the average skill composition of immigrants in destination countries. A model is presented showing that negative attitudes toward migrants can reduce the average skill composition. The intuition for the result is that the highly skilled...

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Finance, Talent Allocation, and Growth

D'Acunto, Francesco - 2018

The growing finance wage premium is related to a modest net reallocation of skilled workers from non-finance sectors into finance in a broad sample of 24 countries over 35 years. The reallocation is higher when the finance wage premium grows faster than the contribution of the financial sector...

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Skills, Signals, and Employability : An Experimental Investigation

Piopiunik, Marc - 2018

As skills of labor-market entrants are usually not directly observed by employers, individuals acquire skill signals. To study which signals are valued by employers, we simultaneously and independently randomize a broad range of skill signals on pairs of resumes of fictitious applicants among...

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The Impact of Digital Technologies on Worker Tasks : Do Labor Policies Matter?

Almeida, Rita - 2018

Between 1999 and 2006, Brazilian cities experienced strong growth in the provision of internet services, driven in part by the privatization of the telecommunications industry. A main concern of policymakers is that digital technology replaces routine, manual tasks, displacing lower-skilled...

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Where Do You Come from, where Do You Go? Assessing Skills Gaps and Labour Market Outcomes of Young Adults with Different Immigration Backgrounds

Cathles, Alison - 2018

This paper analyzes numeracy and literacy skills of migrants, using PISA and PIAAC data from twelve OECD countries. Our results first show some convergence of the skills gap between the second generation immigrants and the natives over time. Second, the gap in literacy skills among the...

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