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China’s Belt and Road Initiative was introduced in 2013 to revitalise the Silk Road and promote economic development and integration. This paper investigates the economic effects of the opening of the only high-speed rail (HSR) line in northwest China which connects China’s northwestern...
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The focus of this study is to assess the causal impact of the connection of a local area to a high-speed rail network (HSR) on firms' total factor productivity (TFP). The quasi-random location of the HSR station in the Italian city of Reggio Emilia is exploited in a Difference-in Differences...
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-development spending ; India …
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Caste-based quotas in hiring have existed in the public sector in India for decades. Recently there has been debate …
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organised manufacturing industries in India. The study uses a recent survey data on labour market in the organised manufacturing … benefits in the organized manufacturing industries in India. -- Trade unions ; wage differentials ; manufacturing …
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resource management systems at two garment factories manufacturing for export in India. They make the same product for the same … management ; labor productivity ; labor standards ; India ; garments …
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This paper is one of the first comprehensive attempts to compare earnings in urban China and India over the recent … the wage distribution. -- China ; India ; earnings ; returns to education ; quantile regression ; Oaxaca …
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however all likely to improve female schooling. We offer evidence from India consistent with our theoretical analysis …
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children's propensities to work and to attend school in rural northern India in a bid to assess the extent of trade-off between … activities. Thus, unlike recent studies of child work in India's South Asian neighbors of Bangladesh and Pakistan, this paper … uncovers evidence of substantial trade-off between child work and school attendance. -- child labor ; schooling costs ; India …
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extent of state dependence in India, distinguishing this from family-level risk factors common to siblings. It offers a … ; multi-level model ; India …
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