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Are Automation and Trade Polarizing Developing Country Labor Markets, Too?
Maloney, William F. - 2017
The automation and out-sourcing of routine, codifiable tasks are seen as driving polarization in labor markets in high …
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Does Automation in Rich Countries Hurt Developing Ones? : Evidence from the U.S. And Mexico
Artuc, Erhan - 2019
that are more exposed to automation in the U.S. through trade fared in exports and employment outcomes. The results show …-2014 -- lowers growth in exports per worker from Mexico to the U.S. by 6.7 percent. Higher exposure to U.S. automation did not affect …. Exposure to U.S. automation reduced manufacturing wage employment in areas where occupations were initially more susceptible to …
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On the Welfare Implications of Automation
Eden, Maya - 2017
income share of ?routine? labor?which is relatively more prone to automation?and a milder rise in the non-routine share … calibrated to match these trends suggests modest aggregate welfare gains from automation …
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Automation and Labor Market Outcomes : The Pivotal Role of High-Quality Education
Bentaouet Kattan, Raja - 2018
Automation will be a boon or a catastrophe depending on whom you listen to. This paper proposes an overlapping … can respond to increased demand from automation and subsequently whether automation will be beneficial or detrimental. In … automation. In testing the model's assumptions, the paper finds evidence that educational attainment, cognitive skills, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912352
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Financial Globalization in Emerging Economies : Much Ado About Nothing?
Levy-Yeyati, Eduardo Levy - 2014
Financial globalization, defined as global linkages through cross-border financial flows, has become increasingly relevant for emerging markets as they integrate financially with the rest of the world. This paper argues that, because of the way it is often measured, it has also led to the...
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Transformational Climate Finance : Donors'Willingness to Support Deep and Transformational Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions in Lower-Income Countries
Strand, Jon - 2020
This paper uses simple analytical models to study high-income donor countries' willingness to pay to supply mitigation finance to low-income countries; how this depends on modality for finance supply; and how it changes as the global greenhouse gas mitigation agenda moves forward. The paper...
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Study of the Distributional Performance of Piped Water Consumption Subsidies in 10 Developing Countries
Abramovsky, Laura Fernanda - 2020
This paper provides new evidence on how effectively piped water consumption subsidies are targeting poor households in 10 low- and middle-income countries around the world. The results suggest that, in these countries, existing tariff structures fall short of recovering the costs of service...
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How Does the World Bank Influence the Development Policy Priorities of Low-Income and Lower-Middle Income Countries?
Knack, Stephen - 2020
This study investigates the World Bank's use of lending and non-lending instruments to affect the policy priorities of developing countries. In a typical year, the World Bank lends more than $30 billion to its client countries. It also spends approximately $200 million on the provision of...
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The Relationship between Female Labor Force Participation and Violent Conflicts in South Asia
Robertson, Raymond - 2020
This paper explores the link between the prevalence of violent conflicts and extremely low female labor force participation rates in South Asia. The Labor Force Surveys from Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, India, and Pakistan are merged with the Global Terrorism Database to estimate the relationship...
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Policy Challenges for Emerging and Developing Economies : Lessons from the Past Decade
Ruch, Franz Ulrich - 2020
The 2009 global recession demonstrated, once again, the importance of crisis prevention as well as the critical need for preserving policy room so that emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) can act when their economies are hit by shocks. And now, with the global growth outlook still...
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