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Trade-Offs? The Impact of WTO Accession on Intimate Partner Violence in Cambodia
Erten, Bilge; Keskin, Pinar - 2022
We study the impact of trade-induced changes in labor market conditions on violence within the household. We exploit the local labor demand shocks generated by Cambodia's WTO accession to assess how changes in the employment of women relative to men affected the risk of intimate partner...
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China's Skill-Biased Imports
Li, Hongbin; Li, Lei; Ma, Hong - 2022
China has witnessed rapid increases in the skill premium over the last few decades. In this paper, we study the short …-run effect of capital goods imports on skill premium in China. The surge in capital goods imports, which embody advanced … technology, can explain the rising demand for skills in China. We exploit regional variations in capital goods import exposure …
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North-South Trade-Related Technology Diffusion : Virtuous Growth Cycles in Latin America
Schiff, Maurice - 2012
This paper examines the impact on TFP in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and in other developing countries (DEV) of trade-related foreign R&D (NRD), education and governance. The measures of NRD are constructed based on industry-specific R&D in the North, North-South trade patterns, and...
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Openness and Technological Innovation in East Asia : Have They Increased the Demand for Skills?
Almeida, Rita - 2009
countries, this has not been the case for manufacturing firms operating in China and in low-income countries. If international …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155474
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Review of the Recent Trends in Development Economics Research : With Experience from the Federal Region of Kurdistan
Heshmati, Almas - 2008
This study is a review of the recent trends in development economics research. The focus is on the development in the recent decades as a result of increased globalization of knowledge, technologies and economies. In particular I look at the development in a number area where similar trends are...
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Openness and Technological Innovations in Developing Countries : Evidence from Firm-Level Surveys
Almeida, Rita - 2007
This paper examines international technology transfers using firm-level data across 43 developing countries. Our findings show that exporting and importing activities are important channels for the transfer of technology. Majority foreign-owned firms are less likely to engage in technological...
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Does Foreign Entry Spur Innovation?
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2015
Our estimates, based on large firm-level and industry-level data sets from eighteen countries, suggest that FDI and trade have strong positive spillover effects on product and technology innovation by domestic firms in emerging markets. The FDI effect is more pronounced for firms from advanced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016240
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Organizational Barriers to Technology Adoption : Evidence from Soccer-Ball Producers in Pakistan
Atkin, David - 2015
This paper studies technology adoption in a cluster of soccer-ball producers in Sialkot, Pakistan. We invented a new cutting technology that reduces waste of the primary raw material and gave the technology to a random subset of producers. Despite the arguably unambiguous net benefits of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016271
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The Impact of Globalization and Technology Transfer on Manufacturing Employment and Skills in Ethiopia
Haile, Getinet A. - 2014
There is a dearth of research on the impact of technological change on employment in the context of least developed countries (LDCs) embarking on globalization, which enhances the prospect of direct technological imports or embodied technological transfer. Using a sample of 1,940 enterprises...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061654
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Globalization and Employment : Imported Skill Biased Technological Change in Developing Countries
Conte, Andrea; Vivarelli, Marco - 2021
This paper discusses the occurrence of Skill-Enhancing Technology Import (SETI), namely the relationship between imports of embodied technology and widening skill-based employment differentials in a sample of low and middle income countries (LMICs). In doing so, this paper provides a direct...
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