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Education, Governance and Trade-Related Technology Diffusion in Latin America

Schiff, Maurice; Wang, Yanling - 2004

This paper examines the impact on TFP of North-South trade-related technology diffusion in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). North-South R&D flows are constructed based on industry-specific R&D in the North, North-South trade patterns, and input-output relations in the South. The main...

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Sluggish institutions in a dynamic world: can unions and industrial competition coexist?

Hirsch, Barry T. - 2007

During the 1930s and 1940s, collective bargaining emerged as the workplace governance norm in much of the U.S. industrial sector. Following its peak in the 1950s, union density in the U.S. private sector fell steadily, to only 7.4 percent in 2006. Governance shifted from a formalized union norm...

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Prospective NATO or EU membership and institutional change in transition countries

Belke, Ansgar; Bordon, Ingo G.; Melnykovska, Inna; … - 2009

This paper quantifies the impact of incentives related to potential membership on institutional change as measured by the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI). Based on a panel of 25 transition countries for the period from 1996 to 2008 we show that pre-accession incentives provided by EU and...

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The Impacts of Climate Change and Air Pollution on Children's Education Outcomes: Evidence from Vietnam

Dang, Hai-Anh; Do, Minh N.N.; Nguyen, Cuong Viet - 2024

Very few studies have examined the impacts of both climate change and air pollution on student education outcomes, particularly in a developing country setting. Analyzing a rich database consisting of household and school surveys, test scores, and temperature and air pollution data over the past...

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Growth with Equity: Income Inequality in Vietnam, 2002–14

Benjamin, Dwayne; Brandt, Loren; McCaig, Brian - 2016

We use the 2002 through 2014 Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys to construct comparable measures of household …

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Household Entrepreneurship and Social Networks: Panel Data Evidence from Vietnam

Nguyen, Huu Chi; Nordman, Christophe Jalil - 2017

Using a unique panel of household businesses for Vietnam, this paper sheds light on the links between households' and …

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Determinants of Employment Growth at MNEs : Evidence from Egypt, India, South Africa and Vietnam

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Estrin, Saul; Meyer, Klaus - 2004

Foreign investors are expected to contribute to economic development through a variety of channels. However, many foreign investment operations are small, and almost insignificant in their impact on the local environment. An important indication of the potential contribution of foreign investors...

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Does off-farm labor relax farmers' credit constraints? Evidence from longitudinal data for Vietnam

Stampini, Marco; Davis, Benjamin - 2008

relaxes credit constraints. Using longitudinal data for Vietnam from 1993-98, we find that households participating in non …

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Inequality in Vietnamese urban-rural living standards, 1993 - 2006

Le, Huong Thu; Booth, Alison L. - 2010

Using data from five waves of the Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey, we find evidence of significant urban …-rural expenditure inequality. Urban-rural inequality in Vietnam increased dramatically from 1993 to 1998, and peaked in 2002 before …

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Long-term economic consequences of Vietnam-era conscription: schooling, experience and earnings

Angrist, Joshua D.; Chen, Stacey H. - 2008

these channels are likely to affect civilian earnings. New estimates of the effects of military service using Vietnam … substantial earnings losses for white Vietnam veterans in the 1970s and 1980s. The recent estimates also point to a marked … increase in post-secondary schooling that appears to be attributable to the Vietnam-era GI Bill. Seen through the lens of a …

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