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The China Syndrome : Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States
Autor, David H. - 2012
We analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition between 1990 and 2007 on local U.S. labor markets, exploiting cross-market variation in import exposure stemming from initial differences in industry specialization while instrumenting for imports using changes in Chinese imports by...
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Factor Adjustments After Deregulation : Panel Evidence from Colombian Plants
Eslava, Marcela - 2005
shedding. We also find that after factor market deregulation in Colombia in 1991, factor adjustment hazards increased on the … of the Colombian deregulation on aggregate productivity through factor adjustment was modest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467020
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The Morale Effects of Pay Inequality
Breza, Emily - 2016
The idea that worker utility is affected by co-worker wages has potentially broad labor market implications. In a month-long experiment with Indian manufacturing workers, we randomize whether co-workers within production units receive the same flat daily wage or different wages (according to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456186
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The Euro and Structural Reforms
Alesina, Alberto - 2008
, defined as deregulation in the product markets and liberalization and deregulation in the labor markets. After reviewing the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464168
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Democracy and Development : The Devil in the Details
Persson, Torsten - 2006
Does democracy promote economic development? We review recent attempts to address this question, which exploit the within-country variation associated with historical transitions in and out of democracy. The answer is positive, but depends -- in a subtle way -- on the details of democratic...
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What Have Two Decades of British Economic Reform Delivered?
Card, David - 2002
Beginning in 1979 with the newly electted Thatcher Government and continuing under successive Conservative and Labour Governments, the United Kingdom has embarked on a two-decade-long experiment in economic reform. We present evidence that the reform process has succeeded in making the UK more...
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Scabs : The Social Suppression of Labor Supply
Breza, Emily - 2019
correlate with downward wage rigidity and business cycle volatility across India …
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Multi-product Firms and Product Turnover in the Developing World : Evidence from India
Goldberg, Pinelopi K. - 2008
Recent theoretical work predicts that an important margin of adjustment to deregulation or trade reforms is the … detailed firm-level data from India, we provide the first evidence on the patterns of multi-product firm production in a large …-section, multi-product firms in India look remarkably similar to their U.S. counterparts, confirming the predictions of recent …
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From "Hindu Growth" to Productivity Surge : The Mystery of the Indian Growth Transition
Rodrik, Dani - 2004
Most conventional accounts of India's recent economic performance associate the pick-up in economic growth with the …
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In with the Big, Out with the Small : Removing Small-Scale Reservations in India
Martin, Leslie A. - 2014
) promotion in India to address this question. For 60 years, SSI promotion in India focused on reserving certain products for …, productivity, and wages of dismantling India's SSI reservations. We exploit variation in the timing of de-reservation across …
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