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Real exchange rate, foreign trade and employment: Evidence from China
Zeng, Xiangquan; Yuxue, Cui; Shisong, Qing; Yumei, Yang - 2011
Coordination of macro-economic development and employment is an essential issue for China's social development, which largely depends on economic expansion, as well as integration into the global market to create jobs. Through the literature review and empirical test, this paper analyses the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280727
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Real Exchange Rate, Foreign Trade and Employment: Evidence from China
Zeng, Xiangquan; Yuxue, Cui; Shisong, Qing; Yumei, Yang - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Coordination of macro-economic development and employment is an essential issue for China's social development, which largely depends on economic expansion, as well as integration into the global market to create jobs. Through the literature review and empirical test, this paper analyses the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283572
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Child labor and trade liberalization in Indonesia
Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Sparrow, Robert - 2009
We examine the effects of trade liberalization on child work in Indonesia. Our estimation strategy identifies geographical differences in the effects of trade policy through district level exposure to reduction in import tariff barriers. We use a balanced panel of 261 districts, based on four...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271336
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Population growth and multiple equilibria: Inferences from a modified Ramsey model
Lehmijoki, Ulla - 2011
, poverty traps, and demography-driven cycles. The model is calibrated for global data to explore the demographic conditions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274561
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Poverty, Labour Markets and Trade Liberalization in Indonesia
Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Sparrow, Robert - 2013
We measure the effects of trade liberalization over the period of 1993-2002 on regional poverty levels in 259 … four three-year periods. We find that poverty reduced more in regions that were more strongly exposed to import tariff … increasing firm competitiveness as a driving factor behind the beneficial poverty effects. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329085
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Poverty, Labour Markets and Trade Liberalization in Indonesia
Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Sparrow, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We measure the effects of trade liberalization over the period of 1993-2002 on regional poverty levels in 259 … four three-year periods. We find that poverty reduced more in regions that were more strongly exposed to import tariff … increasing firm competitiveness as a driving factor behind the beneficial poverty effects. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884152
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Child Labor and Trade Liberalization in Indonesia
Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Sparrow, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We examine the effects of trade liberalization on child work in Indonesia. Our estimation strategy identifies geographical differences in the effects of trade policy through district level exposure to reduction in import tariff barriers. We use a balanced panel of 261 districts, based on four...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005103269
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How Outsourcing Affects Bilateral Political Relations
Polachek, Solomon W. - 2004
One issue the literature neglects is how outsourcing stimulates trade (imports, exports and foreign direct investment), thereby affecting political relations. However, at least as far back as 1750, economic philosophers such as Baron de Montesquieu in his L?Esprit des Lois, argued, ?peace is the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262075
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Economic Development and the Organisation of Labour: Evidence from the Jobs of the World Project
Bandiera, Oriana; Elsayed, Ahmed; Heil, Anton; Smurra, … - 2022
The Jobs of the World Project is a public resource designed to enable research on jobs and poverty across and within … how disparities at the micro level lead to a misuse of human potential that links individual poverty to national income. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470400
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Monetary Policy, Growth and Employment in Developing Areas: A Review of the Literature
Junankar, Pramod N. (Raja) - 2019
In this paper we review the literature on the impact that monetary policy has on growth and employment in developing countries. Much of the literature focusses on the impact of monetary policy on inflation levels and inflation volatility, and sometimes on output (GDP) levels and volatility of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005898