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Do Business Groups Help or Hinder Technological Progress in Emerging Markets? Evidence from India
Bhaumik, Sumon K. - 2014
Business groups, which are ubiquitous in emerging market economies, balance the advantages of characteristics such as internal capital markets with the disadvantages such as inefficient internal distribution of resources and suppression of technological and other forms of innovativeness. In this...
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The Puzzle of Muslim Advantage in Child Survival in India
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2009
The socio-economic status of Indian Muslims is, on average, considerably lower than that of upper caste Hindus. Muslims have higher fertility and shorter birth spacing and are a minority group that, it has been argued, have poorer access to public goods. They nevertheless exhibit substantially...
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Offshoring and Wage Inequality : Theory and Evidence from China
Sheng, Liugang - 2017
model based on a natural experiment in which China lifted its restrictions on foreign ownership for multinational companies … ownership structure, the skill upgrading in exports, and the evolution of wage inequality from 1992 to 2008 in China …
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Occupational Dualism and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in the Rural Economy : Evidence from China and India
Emran, M. Shahe - 2020
farm-nonfarm occupational dualism and provides a comparative analysis of rural China and rural India. The model builds a … India faced lower educational mobility compared with the sons in rural China in the 1970s to 1990s. To understand the role … solely to genetic correlations in China, but not in India. Father's nonfarm occupation was complementary to his education in …
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Female Managers and Their Wages in Central Europe
Jurajda, Stepan; Paligorova, Teodora - 2021
This paper examines the gender gaps in employment and wages among top- and lower-level managerial employees in a recent sample of Czech firms. Unlike the existing analyses of managerial gender pay gaps, we acknowledge the adverse consequences of the low and uneven representation of women for the...
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Economic Reform, Education Expansion, and Earnings Inequality for Urban Males in China, 1988-2007
Meng, Xin - 2014
In the past 20 years the average real earnings of Chinese urban male workers have increased by 350 per cent. Accompanying this unprecedented growth is a considerable increase in earnings inequality. Between 1988 and 2007 the variance of log earnings increased from 0.27 to 0.48, a 78 per cent...
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Accounting for Differences in Female Labor Force Participation between China and India
Azam, Mehtabul - 2019
Although, the male labor force participation rate is comparable in China and India, female labor force participation …
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A Theory of Intra-Firm Group Design
Tumen, Semih - 2015
I develop an intra-firm theory of group design and teamwork in the presence of peer effects. The purpose is to understand the interlinkages between intra-firm group formation and the extent of wage dispersion within the firm. Given a set of heterogeneous workers, the manager faces the challenge...
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Informal Sector and Corruption : An Empirical Investigation for India
Dutta, Nabamita - 2011
India is a country characterized by a huge informal sector. At the same time, it is a country where the extent of corruption in every sector is remarkably high. Stifling bureaucratic interference and corruption at every stage of economic activities is one of the main reasons behind high...
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Public and Private Sector Jobs, Unreported Income and Consumption Gap in India : Evidence from Micro-Data
Kar, Saibal - 2012
This paper tries to document the presence of unreported income among public sector employees in India. We investigate empirically the wage gap as well as consumption expenditure parity between public and private sector workers. It tests the hypothesis that despite a lower level of public sector...
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