This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry … information on offshoring. Our results show that services offshoring affects the real wage of low and medium skilled individuals … negatively. By contrast, skilled workers benefit from services offshoring in terms of higher real wages. Hence, offshoring has …

emerging service economies like India. Not as much attention has been paid to the role that services can play in the economic … manufacturing. The growing literature on service sector primarily focuses on its development in the US and Europe and on Asian … structural adjustments and globalization, some African countries have become service-based economies. Services are considered as …

middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to … linear (Brazil and South Africa) to being U- or J-shaped (India, Jordan, and Indonesia), or a mixture of both (Bolivia …

of "jobless growth", India has experienced concentrated employment growth, mainly in urban areas and for men. This has … remains a defining feature with rising informalization in the formal sector. Some outcomes partly reflect India's overall … level of economic development. At the same time, structural transformation in other countries, including those in the region …

In this paper, we make an attempt to understand whether low labour market returns to education in India are responsible … level data of India for the year 2011-12 is used to examine the relationship between educational attainment and labour …

Since October 2014, the Government of India has worked towards a goal of eliminating open defecation by 2019 through … India. Here, we report results from a late 2018 survey that revisited households from the 2014 survey in four states: Bihar … defecation remains very common in these four states. There is substantial heterogeneity across states in what the SBM did and how …

This study proposes new family-centered measures of access to early care and education (ECE) services with respect to …

richer workers demand more low skill-intensive services (such as cleaning and personal services) but also more skill …-intensive services (such as education and professional services). The parametrization of a simple model suggests that this induced demand …