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Trade Liberalization and Human Capital Accumulation: Evidence from Indian Census
Azam, Mehtabul - 2022
introduced by the 1991 trade liberalization to examine the impact of liberalization on human capital accumulation measured by … school before and after liberalization to implement cohort wise difference-in-difference strategy. We also construct a …-in-difference estimate by looking at the pre and post liberalization outcomes. We find that once we allow for the differential state policies …
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Tariffs, Social Status, and Gender in India
Anukriti, S; Kumler, Todd J. - 2014
) have increased in response to trade liberalization. Thus, altered expectations about future returns from daughters relative …
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Disentangling the Wage Impacts of Offshoring on a Developing Country: Theory and Policy
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy; … - 2016
The various channels through which a reduction in the cost of offshoring can improve wages in a developed country are by now well understood. But does a similar reduction in the offshoring cost also benefit workers in the world's factories in developing countries? Using a parsimonious...
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On Trade Policy Preference and Offshoring Ties
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; … - 2022
This paper unpacks the role of the domestic content of imports as a novel source of policy interdependence along the global supply chain. We show how a rise in local contents embodied in imports can skew national trade policy preferences, and pull upstream and downstream countries in asymmetric...
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North-South Technology Spillovers: The Relative Impact of Openness and Foreign R&D
Schiff, Maurice; Wang, Yanling - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
larger productivity gains from trade liberalization than previously thought. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763872
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Tariffs, Social Status, and Gender in India
Anukriti, S; Kumler, Todd J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
) have increased in response to trade liberalization. Thus, altered expectations about future returns from daughters relative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744667
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Brain drain in globalization: a general equilibrium analysis from the sending countries' perspective
Marchiori, Luca; Shen, I-ling; Docquier, Frédéric - 2009
The paper assesses the global effects of brain drain on developing economies and quantifies the relative sizes of various static and dynamic impacts. By constructing a unified generic framework characterized by overlapping-generations dynamics and calibrated to real data, this study incorporates...
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Brain Drain in Globalization: A General Equilibrium Analysis from the Sending Countries' Perspective
Marchiori, Luca; Shen, I-Ling; Docquier, Frédéric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
The paper assesses the global effects of brain drain on developing economies and quantifies the relative sizes of various static and dynamic impacts. By constructing a unified generic framework characterized by overlapping-generations dynamics and calibrated to real data, this study incorporates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005004562
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Privatization and changes in the wage structure: evidence from firm personnel records
Melly, Blaise; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2008
We investigate the wage effects of privatization using person-level firm-based panel datasets from one privatized and one nonprivatized public sector firm in the same country for the years immediately before and after privatization. Thus, we can analyze the before-after effects of privatization...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269136
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Rise of the Indian Middle Class and Its Impact on the Labor Market
Eggimann, Andres; Kendzia, Michael J. - 2022
The world is changing its socio-economic landscape. By doing so, the phenomenon of a growing middle-class appears. Both household surveys and growth projections suggest that only about one-third of the global middle class is based in Asia. However, between 2009 and 2017, the global middle-class...
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