manufacturing sector of China and India. We first provide a comparison between India and China using a broad international … perspective. We find that China has increased its labor productivity to a level above that of India, but due to a somewhat higher … compensation level, China is still somewhat at a disadvantage in terms of unit labor cost in manufacturing relative to India. In …

This paper examines the causal link between education and democracy. Motivated by a model whereby educated individuals …, the empirical analysis uses World Values Surveys to study the link between education and democratic attitudes. Controlling … for a variety of characteristics, the paper finds that higher education levels tend to result in prodemocracy views. These …

set collected in the Himalayan region of India allows us to deal with the heterogeneity of rural nonfarm activities by … inquiry that reveals that education plays a major role in accessing more remunerative nonfarm employment. Other household …

This paper evaluates the impact of globalization on tax bases of countries at varying stages of development. We see … globalization as a process that induces countries to embrace greater trade and financial integration. This in turn should shift …

Globalization has led to a vast flow of migration of workers but also of students. The purpose of this paper is to … analyze the migration of individuals encompassing decisions already at the level of education. We develop a unified brain … drain model that incorporates the decisions of an individual vis - à - vis both education and migration. In the empirical …

To examine the impact of globalization on managerial compensation, we consider a matching model where a number of firms … compete both in the product market and in the managerial market. We show that globalization, i.e. the simultaneous integration …