We provide a comprehensive empirical analysis of the links between international services outsourcing, domestic … outsourcing, profits and innovation using plant level data. We find a positive effect of international outsourcing of services on … innovative activity at the plant level. Such a positive effect can also be observed for domestic outsourcing of services, but the …

integration to changes in other relevant plant characteristics. We show that increases in outsourcing of services are positively …

This paper is one of the first comprehensive attempts to compare earnings in urban China and India over the recent … levels in China and significantly accentuates the reversal of the wage gap in favour of this country for the first half of …

and a secret saving device on solidarity in risk-sharing groups among rural villagers in the Philippines. Risk is …

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 …

factors governing entry rates, especially in the context of developing countries. Using 3-digit industry level data from India … institutional and legacy factors. We also find evidence to suggest that, in India, entry rates were positively associated with …