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The analysis of the effects of firm-level international trade on wages has so far focused on the role of exports, which are also typically treated as a composite good. However, we show in this paper that firm-level imports can actually be a wage determinant as important as exports. Furthermore,...
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Brazil was characterised by a marked process of trade liberalisation in the 1990s, resulting in a dramatic increase in the volumes of exports and imports since the year 2000. Over the same period, the relative demand for skilled labour has increased substantially. To investigate whether these...
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first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between productivity and size of the export market for Germany, a leading … actor on the world market for manufactured goods. It documents that firms that export to countries inside the euro-zone are … more productive than firms that sell their products in Germany only, but less productive than firms that export to …
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Indian diaspora in the development of India's IT sector. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of the analysis …
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India is a country characterized by a huge informal sector. At the same time, it is a country where the extent of …
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India. We further examine various channels through which prenatal sex selection might affect girls' outcomes. Using repeated …
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at birth in India. It conducts a triple difference analysis across cohort, birth order and sex of previous births …
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more clearly relevant. Using state-level panel data for India, we contribute the first estimates of the impact of changes …
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this respect. Using India as an important case in point, we intend to bridge this gap of the literature. Results using a … unique district-level panel data-set from 17 major states of India for the period 1992-2002 that we compile highlight a …
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, upon 7-19 years olds' school enrollment and grade progression in rural North India. It hopes both to extend to less …
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