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Asymmetric Information and Remittances: Evidence from Matched Administrative Data
Nyarko, Yaw; Joseph, Thomas; Wang, Shing-Yi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
Using new data matching remittances and monthly payroll disbursals, we demonstrate how fluctuations in migrants' earnings in the United Arab Emirates affect their remittances. We consider three types of income fluctuations that are observable by families at home: seasonalities, weather shocks...
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Human capital and the Indian software industry
Arora, Ashish; Bagde, Surendra K. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
Though previous studies have noted the role of skilled labor in the growth of the Indian software industry, they have not empirically investigated its importance. In this study we study the effect of the supply of engineers, measured by engineering baccalaureate capacity, on the regional growth...
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Human Capital Accounts: Choice of Rates and Construction of Volume Indices
Fraumeni, Barbara M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Both human capital and nonhuman capital play an important role in economic growth. Estimates of nonhuman (physical) capital exist for many more countries than for human capital. Recently there has been a significant increase in the number of countries for which estimates of human capital exist,...
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International Migration, Remittances, and Household Investment: Evidence from Philippine Migrants' Exchange Rate Shocks
Yang, Dean - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
Millions of households in developing countries receive financial support from family members working overseas. How do migrant earnings affect origin-household investments? This paper examines Philippine households%u2019 responses to overseas members%u2019 economic shocks. Overseas Filipinos work...
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The Knowledge Trap: Human Capital and Development Reconsidered
Jones, Benjamin F. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
This paper presents a model where human capital differences - rather than technology differences - can explain several central phenomena in the world economy. The results follow from the educational choices of workers, who decide not just how long to train, but also how broadly. A "knowledge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005575247
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Can the West Save Africa?
Easterly, William - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
In the new millennium, the Western aid effort towards Africa has surged due to writings by well-known economists, a celebrity mass advocacy campaign, and decisions by Western leaders to make Africa a major foreign policy priority. This survey contrasts the predominant "transformational" approach...
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Worker Mobility in a Global Labor Market: Evidence from the United Arab Emirates
Nyarko, Yaw; Naidu, Suresh; Wang, Shing-Yi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
In 2011, a reform in the United Arab Emirates allowed any employer to renew a migrant's visa upon contract expiration without written permission from the initial employer. We find that the reform increased incumbent migrants' earnings and firm retention of these workers. This occurs despite an...
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Rural Income Volatility and Inequality in China
Whalley, John; Yue, Ximing - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
rural incomes in China. Current literature based on analyses of rural income volatility in China decomposes poverty into … urban-rural income gap on which much of current poverty debate in China focuses. Since an uncertain income stream is worth … widen the urban-rural income gap in China but also increases other distributional summary statistics. Depending upon values …
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Implications of an Economic Theory of Conflict: Hindu-Muslim Violence in India
Ray, Debraj; Mitra, Anirban - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We model inter-group conflict driven by economic changes within groups. We show that if group incomes are low, increasing group incomes raises violence against that group, and lowers violence generated by it. We then apply the model to data on Hindu-Muslim violence in India. Our main result is...
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Immigration, International Collaboration, and Innovation: Science and Technology Policy in the Global Economy
Freeman, Richard B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
greater US scientific collaborations with other countries. China's massive investments in university education and R&D has in …
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