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Industry and Skill Wage Premiums in East Asia
di Gropello, Emanuela - 2017
relation to trends and patterns of demand for skills (Indonesia, Philippines, and Thailand; Vietnam and China; and Cambodia and …
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Public Policy and Industrial Transformation in the Process of Development
Agenor, Pierre-Richard - 2017
imitation sector. The process of industrialization increases the demand for high-skill labor, inducing individuals to invest in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974488
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Economic and Distributional Impacts of Free Trade Agreements : The Case of Indonesia
Cali, Massimiliano - 2019
ante estimates of the impacts of two key preferential trade agreements currently negotiated by Indonesia, the largest … Indonesia may negotiate in the future. To that end it, combines a dynamic, multi-country computable general equilibrium model … the preferential trade agreements considered, the European Union?Indonesia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859523
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The Nature of Trade and Growth Linkages
Didier, Tatiana - 2017
This paper shows new empirical regularities indicating that the structure of trade connections affects the trade-growth nexus. System generalized method of moments estimations indicate that key structural features associated with the composition of traded products and partners matter for growth....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012949795
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Digital Innovation in East Asia : Do Restrictive Data Policies Matter
Ferracane, Martina - 2020
Digital technologies encourage companies to innovate with new processes, goods, and services, which ultimately enhance their competitiveness in local and global markets. This paper analyzes whether a wide set of data restrictions are negatively associated with digital innovation of firms. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842984
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Distribution of Consumption Expenditure in East Asia
Jirasavetakul, La-Bhus Fah - 2017
Using a new database of household surveys, this paper examines inequality among all individuals living in developing East Asia regardless of their country of residence. The East Asian Gini index increased from 39.0 in 1988 to 43.3 in 2012. Inequality increased during the initial decade,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962321
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Assessing Innovation Patterns and Constraints in Developing East Asia : An Introductory Analysis
Iootty, Mariana - 2019
countries (Cambodia, China, Indonesia, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012894659
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International Financial Integration of East Asia and Pacific
Didier, Tatiana - 2018
This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of how economies in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region have been integrating financially with the rest of the world since the 1990s, using bilateral data on portfolio investments, syndicated bank loans, mergers and acquisitions (M&As), and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012935816
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Technology Adoption and the Middle-Income Trap : Lessons from the Middle East and East Asia
Arezki, Rabah - 2019
This paper documents the existence of a "middle-income trap" for the Middle East and North Africa region. It argues that the economic woes of the Middle East and North Africa offer new insights into the debate on the trap which has thus far focused on the East Asia and Pacific region. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865510
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Labor Migration and Economic Growth in East and Southeast Asia
Walmsley, Terrie Louise - 2017
East and Southeast Asia face major demographic changes over the next few decades as many countries' labor forces will start to decline, while others will experience higher labor force growth as populations and participation rates increase. A well-managed labor migration strategy presents itself...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973905