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Rise of the Indian middle class and its impact on the labor market
Eggimann, Andres; Kendzia, Michael Jan - 2022
The world is changing its socio-economic landscape. By doing so, the phenomenon of a growing middle-class appears. Both household surveys and growth projections suggest that only about one-third of the global middle class is based in Asia. However, between 2009 and 2017, the global middle-class...
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Trade liberalization and human capital accumulation : evidence from Indian census
Azam, Mehtabul - 2022
introduced by the 1991 trade liberalization to examine the impact of liberalization on human capital accumulation measured by … school before and after liberalization to implement cohort wise difference-in-difference strategy. We also construct a …-in-difference estimate by looking at the pre and post liberalization outcomes. We find that once we allow for the differential state policies …
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Economic integration of intermarried labour migrants, refugees and family migrants to Sweden : premium or selection?
Bevelander, Pieter; Irastorza, Nahikari - 2014
We use Swedish register data to compare the employment and income of immigrants who intermarry natives versus those of immigrants who intramarry other immigrants in Sweden. We conduct the same analyses on three subsamples: labour migrants, refugees and family migrants. We find that intermarried...
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Institutional integration and productivity growth: evidence from the 1995 enlargement of the European Union
Campos, Nauro; Coricelli, Fabrizio; Franceschi, Emanuele - 2021
This paper studies the productivity effects of integration deepening. The identification strategy exploits the 1995 European Union (EU) enlargement, when all candidate countries joined the Single Market but one - Norway - did not join the EU. Our synthetic difference-in-differences estimates on...
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The effect on foreign direct investment of membership in the European Union
Bruno, Randolph; Campos, Nauro; Estrin, Saul - 2020
This paper explores the impact of EU membership on foreign direct investment (FDI). It analyses empirically how the effects of such deep integration differ from other forms and investigates what drives these effects. Using a structural gravity framework on annual bilateral FDI data for almost...
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Trade and capital flows: substitutes or complements? : an empirical investigation
Belke, Ansgar; Domnick, Clemens - 2019
This paper examines the linkages between the trade of goods and financial assets. Do both flows behave as complements (implying a positive correlation) or as substitutes (negative correlation)? Although a classic topic in international macroeconomics, the empirical evidence has remained...
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Unexpected colonial returns : self-selection and economic integration of migrants over multiple generations
Gielen, Anne C.; Webbink, Herman Dinand - 2023
A ban on migration from Suriname, a former Dutch colony, to the Netherlands induced a mass migration and changed the selection of migrants. We exploit this historical episode to study the relationship between the self-selection of migrants and their long-term economic integration over three...
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Exports to improve women's economic opportunities in Morocco
Roche Rodriguez, Jaime Alfonso; Robertson, Raymond; … - 2023
Morocco's trade liberalization policies coincided with macroeconomic growth over the past two decades. The relationship … between trade liberalization and individual-level labor-market outcomes, however, are not well understood. By combining three … participation (FLFP). Trade liberalization seems to have induced a shift from female labor-intensive industries, such as apparel, to …
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Exports and jobs for inclusive growth in Cambodia
Kokas, Deeksha; Roche Rodriguez, Jaime Alfonso; López … - 2024
Cambodia's rapid economic growth in the past few decades has coincided with trade liberalization and structural …
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Gender discrimination and common property resources
Casari, Marco; Lisciandra, Maurizio - 2015
In an open economy with common property resources at the community level, marriage and migratory decisions crucially depend on inheritance rules on the commons. Motivated by the traditional management of the commons in the Italian Alps, we present a model that fits the evolution of property...
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