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Intellectual Property Rights, Migration, and Diaspora

Naghavi, Alireza - 2013

intellectual property rights (IPRs) protection in determining innovation in developing countries (South). We show that although … workers there. By increasing the size of the innovation sector and the skill-intensity of emigration, IPRs protection makes it … correlation between emigration and innovation in the presence of strong IPRs protection …

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Financial Constraints and Innovation : Why Poor Countries Don't Catch Up

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2015

's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey data which provides direct measures for innovations and firm … export and innovation activities to become substitutes although they are generally natural complements …

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Innovation, Employment and Skills in Advanced and Developing Countries : A Survey of the Literature

Vivarelli, Marco - 2012

This paper critically discusses the theoretical and empirical literature on the quantitative and qualitative employment impact of technological change, compares the relative explanatory power of the competing theories, and explains in detail the macro and micro evidence on the issue, with...

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Temporary Shocks and Offshoring : The Role of External Economies and Firm Heterogeneity

Mitra, Devashish; Jha, Priyaranjan - 2007

We construct a model of offshoring with externalities and firm heterogeneity. Due to the presence of externalities, temporary shocks like the Y2K problem can have permanent effects, i.e., they can permanently raise the extent of offshoring in an industry. Also, the initial advantage of a country...

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Global Job Quality : Evidence from Wage Employment Across Developing Countries

Hovhannisyan, Shoghik; Montalva-Talledo, Veronica; … - 2022

Measuring job quality across countries has been challenging and has relied typically on a single indicator, such as formality or wages. To contribute to this critical policy issue, this paper presents a first global estimate of job quality departing from microdata. It assembles a harmonized...

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Employer Power and Employment in Developing Countries

Chau, Nancy H.; Kanbur, Ravi; Soundararajan, Vidhya - 2022

The issue of employer power is underemphasized in the development literature. The default model is usually one of competitive labor markets. This assumption matters for analysis and policy prescription. There is growing evidence that the competitive labor markets assump- tion is not valid for...

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Gender Discrimination and the Sex Ratio of Immigrants

Lach, Saul; Sicherman, Nachum - 2022

We use data on international migration to study the causal effect of gender discrimination on the sex-ratio of immigrants to the U.S. during the 1970-2019 period. We measure gender discrimination in the countries of origin using the Women, Business, and the Law (WBL) index, which measures legal...

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Minimum Wages in Developing Countries

Fang, Tony; Ha, Viet - 2022

There is considerable debate on the level and effects of minimum wages for many decades. However, most of the studies are conducted in developed countries. This chapter first reviews the theoretical frameworks of anticipated effects of a minimum wage increase on wages and employment in...

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The Relationship between Cognitive Ability and Risk Preferences in a Developing Nation : Findings from the Field

Moghaddasi Kelishomi, Ali; Sgroi, Daniel - 2022

We find a strong relationship between risk-loving preferences and cognitive ability which becomes stronger as adherence to the generalized axiom of revealed preference (a proxy for rationality) increases. Our results are taken from a field study of individuals at the very bottom of the income...

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Gendered Impacts of COVID-19 in Developing Countries

Alon, Titan; Doepke, Matthias; Manysheva, Kristina; … - 2022

In many high-income economies, the recession caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in unprecedented declines in women's employment. We examine how the forces that underlie this observation play out in developing countries, with a specific focus on Nigeria, the most populous country in...

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