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 …

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 …

then use a stylized growth model to analyze the various channels through which a brain drain affects the sending countries … Indian diaspora in the development of India's IT sector. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of the analysis …

A recent literature highlights the uncertainty concerning whether economic growth has any causal protective effect on … health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is … more clearly relevant. Using state-level panel data for India, we contribute the first estimates of the impact of changes …

the forefront of tertiary education in colonial India, but they established many high quality colleges following Indian …

This paper provides estimates of the economic impact of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in China and India for the … period 2012-2030. Our estimates are derived using WHO's EPIC model of economic growth, which focuses on the negative effects … five main NCDs will total USD 27.8 trillion for China and USD 6.2 trillion for India (in 2010 USD). For both countries, the …

physical infrastructure are conducive to rapid economic growth commensurate with the projected demographic dividends for India … countries in the south have younger population. India for example, has 60% of its population in the age group of 15-59, with the … dependency ratio lower than that of the ageing countries. The economic growth such a large share of working age population can …

In the past twenty years, India's economy has grown at increasing rates and now belongs to the fastest …-growing economies in the world. This paper examines drivers of female labor force participation in urban India between 1987 and 2004 … minority of India's women. So despite India's economic boom, it appears that for all but the very well educated, labor market …

evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly … developed country. It uses unique new data from Germany - one of the leading actors on the world market for services - that … the productivity of exporting firms is in between – does not exist among firms from services industries. In line with the …