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International financial integration and Real Exchange Rate long-run dynamics in emerging countries: some panel evidence
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Amor, Thouraya Hadj; Rault, … - 2009
The aim of this paper is to provide new empirical evidence on the impact of international financial integration on the long-run Real Exchange Rate (RER) in 39 developing countries belonging to three different geographical regions (Latin America, Asia and MENA). It covers the period 1979-2004,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271575
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Rising wages: Has China lost its global labor advantage?
Yang, Dennis Tao; Chen, Vivian; Monarch, Ryan - 2010
We document dramatic rising wages in China for the period 1978-2007 based on multiple sources of aggregate statistics …-intensive and labor-intensive industries have widened. Comparisons of international data show that China's manufacturing wage has … already converged to that of Asian emerging markets, but China still enjoys enormous labor cost advantages over its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269786
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Tenure, wage profiles and monitoring
Sessions, John G.; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2008
We investigate the relationship between the slope of the wage-tenure profile and the level of monitoring across two cross sections of matched employer-employee British data. Our theoretical model predicts that increased monitoring leads to a decline in the slope of the wage-tenure profile. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276684
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Monitoring costs, credit constraints and entrepreneurship
Banerji, Sanjay; Raj, Rajesh S. N.; Sen, Kunal - 2012
The vast majority of firms in developing economies are micro and small enterprises owned by families whose members also provide the labour to the units. Often, they fail to grow in size even with the relaxation of credit constraints. In this paper, we show that frictions in the labour market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283965
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How do parents allocate time? The effects of wages and income
Bloemen, Hans G.; Stancanelli, Elena G. F. - 2008
This paper focuses on the time allocation of spouses and the impact of economic variables. We present a stylized model of the time allocation of spouses to illustrate the expected impact of wages and non-labour income. The empirical model simultaneously specifies three time-use choices - paid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268863
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An empirical analysis of the time allocation of Italian couples: are Italian men irresponsive?
Bloemen, Hans G.; Pasqua, Silvia; Stancanelli, Elena G. F. - 2008
This paper analyzes the time allocation of Italian spouses to paid work, childcare and household work. The literature suggests that Italian husbands contribute the least to unpaid household work, relative to other European countries, while Italian women have the lowest market employment rates....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268955
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Modelling the employment and wage outcomes of spouses: is she outearning him?
Bloemen, Hans G.; Stancanelli, Elena G. F. - 2008
This paper is focused on couple households where the wife is the main earner. The economic literature on this subject is particularly scant. According to our estimates, the wife was the main earner in one of every six couple households in France in 2002, including wife-sole-earner households....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276779
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An Empirical Analysis of the Time Allocation of Italian Couples: Are Italian Men Irresponsive?
Bloemen, Hans; Pasqua, Silvia; Stancanelli, Elena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper analyzes the time allocation of Italian spouses to paid work, childcare and household work. The literature suggests that Italian husbands contribute the least to unpaid household work, relative to other European countries, while Italian women have the lowest market employment rates....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822887
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How Do Parents Allocate Time? The Effects of Wages and Income
Bloemen, Hans; Stancanelli, Elena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper focuses on the time allocation of spouses and the impact of economic variables. We present a stylized model of the time allocation of spouses to illustrate the expected impact of wages and non-labour income. The empirical model simultaneously specifies three time-use choices – paid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703247
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Modelling the Employment and Wage Outcomes of Spouses: Is She Outearning Him?
Bloemen, Hans; Stancanelli, Elena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper is focused on couple households where the wife is the main earner. The economic literature on this subject is particularly scant. According to our estimates, the wife was the main earner in one of every six couple households in France in 2002, including wife-sole-earner households....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762193