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Trade Liberalization, Employment Flows, and Wage Inequality in Brazil
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Leite, Phillippe G.; … - 2012
Using nationally representative, economywide data, this paper investigates the relative importance of trade-mandated effects on industry wage premia; industry and economywide skill premia; and employment flows in accounting for changes in the wage distribution in Brazil during the 1988-95 trade...
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Trends in Tariff Reforms and Trends in Wage Inequality
Galiano, Sebastian; Porto, Guido G. - 2012
The authors provide new evidence on the impacts of trade reforms on wages and wage inequality in developing countries … wages and wage inequality. After setting up unusual historical data sets of trends in tariffs, trends in wages, and trends …) has reduced wages, and (2) has increased wage inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553729
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Institutions and Labor Market Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa
Fox, Louise; Oviedo, Ana Maria - 2012
The authors use firm-level survey data from the manufacturing sector in 20 Sub-Saharan African countries to explore the links between labor market regulations and net job creation. A first look at firm characteristics, perceptions, and the dynamics of employment at the firm level suggests that...
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The Home as Factory Floor : Employment and Remuneration of Home-Based Workers
Cunningham, Wendy; Gomez, Carlos Ramos - 2013
long hours for low wages. The authors use a large random sample of control groups of non-home-based workers, including men …
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Globalization and the Gender Wage Gap
Oostendorp, Remco H. - 2013
There are several theoretical reasons why globalization will have a narrowing as well as widening effect on the gender …-country study of the impact of globalization on the occupational gender wage gap, based on the rarely used but most far …-ranging survey of wages around the world, the International Labour Organization's October Inquiry. This annual survey was started in …
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A Mapping of Labor Mobility Costs in Developing Countries
Artu??, Erhan; Lederman, Daniel; Porto, Guido - 2013
Estimates of labor mobility costs are needed to assess the responses of employment and wages to trade shocks when …
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Does Employment Generation Really Matter for Poverty Reduction?
Gutierrez, Catalina; Orecchia, Carlo; Paci, Pierella - 2012
This paper analyzes how the employment/productivity profile of growth and its sectoral pattern are correlated with poverty reduction. The authors use a sample of 104 short-run growth spells in developing countries, between 1980 and 2001. They also identify some conditions of the labor market and...
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Constraints to Growth and Job Creation in Low-Income Commonwealth of Independent States Countries
Verme, Paolo - 2012
progressively lost its manufacturing capacity, and focuses on capital-intensive, highly productive sectors, and provides good wages …
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Macroeconomic Adjustment and the Poor : Analytical Issues and Cross-Country Evidence
Ag??nor, Pierre-Richard - 2013
wages, employment, and poverty. Fourth, he presents cross-country regressions linking various macroeconomic and structural …
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Investment Climate and International Integration
Dollar, David; Hallward-Driemeier, Mary; Mengistae, Taye - 2013
Drawing on recently completed firm-level surveys in Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Honduras, India, Nicaragua, Pakistan, and Peru, this paper investigates the relationship between investment climate and international integration. These standardized surveys of large, random samples of firms in common...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012559770