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Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis
Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector … China and the other BRICS. These differences are down to differences in industrial policy: in China industrial policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884080
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Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis
Naudé, Wim A.; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - 2013
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector … China and the other BRICS. These differences are down to differences in industrial policy: in China industrial policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319535
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Returns to Skills and the Speed of Reforms : Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe, China, and Russia
Sabirianova, Klara Z.; Fleisher, Belton M.; Wang, Xiaojun - 2004
a number of Central and Eastern European countries, Russia, and China. We use metadata from 33 studies of 10 transition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271753
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Regional Income Inequality in Selected Large Countries
Heshmati, Almas - 2004
Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global, continental, international and national levels. Here we consider income inequality at the national level but the focus is on the within country regional inequality. Regional inequality in income distribution in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262053
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Earnings differences between Chinese and Indian wage earners, 1987 - 2004
Bargain, Olivier; Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Chakrabarty, Manisha - 2008
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268813
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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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How does financial globalization affect risk sharing? Patterns and channels
Kose, M. Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar S.; Terrones, Marco E. - 2007
In theory, one of the main benefits of financial globalization is that it should allow for more efficient international risk sharing. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive empirical evaluation of the patterns of risk sharing among different groups of countries and examine how international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268195
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Is informality bad? Evidence from Brazil, Mexico and South Africa
Bargain, Olivier; Kwenda, Prudence - 2010
employment in Brazil, Mexico and South Africa, distinguishing between dependent and independent workers. For each country, we use … small at all levels in Brazil. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269524
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A Menu of Minimum Wage Variables for Evaluating Wages and Employment Effects : Evidence from Brazil
Lemos, Sara - 2004
The international literature on minimum wage greatly lacks empirical evidence from developing countries. Brazil …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261832
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Are Wage and Employment Effects Robust to Alternative Minimum Wage Variables?
Lemos, Sara - 2004
A national minimum wage cannot explain variation in wages or employment across regions. Identification of the effect of the minimum wage separately from the effect of other variables on wages or employment requires regional variation. Many minimum wage variables with regional variation have been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261833