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The Chinese Export Bundles: Patterns, Puzzles and Possible Explanations

Wang, Zhi; Wei, Shang-Jin - 2008

China's exports have become increasingly sophisticated. This has generated anxiety in developed countries as the competitive pressure may be increasingly felt outside labor-intensive industries. Using product-level data on exports from different cities within China, this paper investigates the...

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The impact of skill development and human capital training on self help groups

Swain, Ranjula Bali; Varghese, Adel - 2009

We evaluate the effect of training, in both skill development and human capital, provided by facilitators of self help groups (SHGs). Indian SHGs are unique in that they are mainly NGOformed microfinance groups but later funded by commercial banks. The results suggest that, in general, training...

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How Will the COVID-19 Pandemic Affect the Regions? A Comparative Analysis of the EU and ASEAN

Jetin, Bruno - 2021

he COVID-19 pandemic calls for a collective response at the global and regional level. Otherwise, some nations may be left behind and the potential for the contagion to return remains high. As advanced regional blocs, the EU and ASEAN have a major responsibility to their members for coordinating...

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The labor market consequences of internal migration in Turkey

Berker, Ali - 2010

During the last 30 years, Turkey has undergone profound economic and social transformations, including fundamental shifts from the state-oriented economy to the market-oriented economy; large scale modernization investments in telecommunication and transportation services; and the low-intensity...

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Integrating south and southeast Asia through services value chain: The case of India and Thailand

Mukherjee, Arpita; Goyal, Tanu M. - 2015

services trade, investment and cooperation between South and Southeast Asia, taking the example of India and Thailand, by … analysis of the trade agreements involving India and Thailand, the paper finds that the present level of physical and people … agreement. India and Thailand have singularly liberalised key services sectors in their concluded bilateral and regional trade …

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Non-Tariff barriers and India's exports: The case of Asean and Sri Lanka

Saqib, Mohammed; Taneja, Nisha - 2005

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India-ASEAN Cooperation in Services: An Overview

Karmakar, Suparna - 2005

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A product market theory of worker training

Gersbach, Hans; Schmutzler, Armin - 2003

We develop a product market theory that explains why firms invest in general training of their workers. We consider a model where firms first decide whether to invest in general human capital, then make wage offers for each others' trained employees and finally engage in imperfect product market...

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Globalization and general worker training

Gersbach, Hans; Schmutzler, Armin - 2004

We examine how globalization affects firms incentives to train workers. In our model, firms invest in productivity-enhancing worker training before Cournot competition takes place. When two separated product markets become integrated and are thus replaced with a market with greater demand and...

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Personnel training: A theoretical and empirical review

Ericson, Thomas - 2005

This report provides an introduction to personnel training (on-the-job training) literature in the economics field. Theoretical models dealing with the initiation of training programmes and their effects on pay at the individual level are discussed, and empirical research on wage effects is...

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