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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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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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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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In 2000, Higher Education in Developing Countries: Peril and Promise was published. This report, cosponsored by The World Bank and UNESCO, came at a time of transition in higher education worldwide and helped shape higher education policy and thinking in several developing countries. This...
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