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This paper exploits longitudinal employer-employee matched data from the U.S. Census Bureau to investigate the contribution of worker and firm reallocation to changes in earnings inequality within and across industries between 1992 and 2003. We find that factors that cannot be measured using...
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Income improvement is the primary expectation when deciding to migrate. However, due to the limited resources and urban facilities, informal sector work leads to an increasing income gap with local workers, migrant workers in big cities are considered the most vulnerable population. When there...
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inequality in Vietnam. This study is the first attempt to examine the impact of FDI on income inequality under the constraints of …. Empirical results show that FDI tends to increase income inequality in Vietnam and the existence of a non-linearity relationship … are different depending on the level of education and institutions of the host provinces in Vietnam. The results of this …
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We use the 2002 through 2014 Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys to construct comparable measures of household …
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middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to …, Vietnam, and Tanzania). Overall, the economic, social, and institutional constraints that shape women's labor force …
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Vietnam is widely regarded as a success story for its impressive economic growth and poverty reduction in the last few … extensive province-level data from the Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys (VHLSSs) for every alternate year between 2002 … suggest that policy makers in Vietnam should focus on reducing spatial disparities and income inequality in order to attain …
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This paper examines the impact of an export market expansion created by the US-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA …) on competition among manufacturing firms in Vietnam's local labor markets. Using a nonparametric production function …
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We investigate the evolution of multidimensional inequality of well-being in Vietnam in the period 2002-2012 using … values of the parameters, with the aim of arriving at a robust understanding of the extent of inequality in Vietnam. Our … results suggest that the level of multidimensional inequality in Vietnam has decreased, albeit that this is not the case for …
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Child height is a significant predictor of human capital and economic status throughout adulthood. Moreover, non-unitary household models of family behavior posit that an increase in women's bargaining power can influence child health. We study the effects of an inheritance law change, the Hindu...
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