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Globalization and Workers in Developing Countries
Rama, Martin - 2017
deals with the effects of openness to trade, foreign direct investment, and financial crises on average wages. Second, it … discusses the impact of exposure to world markets on the dispersion of wages by occupation, skill, and gender. Third, it …
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Perspectives on the Sources of Heterogeneity in Indian Industry
Lall, Somik V. - 2017
The authors examine technical efficiency variation across four industrial sectors in India, using a stochastic production frontier technique. The results are comparable to technical efficiency distribution patterns obtained in other countries. The authors examine heterogeneity in firm-level...
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The Misallocation of Pay and Productivity in the Public Sector : Evidence from the Labor Market for Teachers
Bau, Natalie - 2017
correlates; and (c) the link between TVA and teacher wages. Teachers are highly effective in our setting: Moving a student from … between TVA and wages in the public sector (although there is in the private sector), and a policy change that shifted public … hiring from permanent to temporary contracts, reducing wages by 35 percent, had no adverse impact on TVA, either immediately …
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Fewer Jobs or Smaller Paychecks? Aggregate Crisis Impacts in Selected Middle-Income Countries
Khanna, Gaurav - 2017
declined and hourly wages changed little. But both the magnitude and nature of the adjustments varied considerably across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975779
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General Equilibrium Effects of Land Market Restrictions on Labor Market : Evidence from Wages in Sri Lanka
Emran, M. Shahe - 2017
market restrictions on wages and its spatial pattern. The empirical specification is derived from a general equilibrium model … that predicts that the adverse effects of land market restrictions on wages will be less in remote locations. For … sub-district. The results show that land restrictions reduce wages substantially, and this effect is smaller in remote …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976319
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Technological Change and the Labor Market in Argentina and Uruguay : A Task Content Analysis
Apella, Ignacio - 2017
The objective of this paper is to analyze the employment profile trends in Argentina and Uruguay according to the task content performed by the workers in their jobs. The paper aims to produce an approximation of the impact of technological change on the labor market. The paper uses the...
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How Technology Adoption and Trade are Shaping Indonesian Labor Markets
Viollaz, Mariana - 2019
This paper analyzes the simultaneous impacts and interplay of exports and technology adoption on the demand for different types of skills and aggregate labor market indicators in Indonesia over a period characterized by a commodity boom (2005-10) and a period of declining exports (2011-15). The...
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Shoeing the Children : The Impact of the Toms Shoe Donation Program in Rural El Salvador
Wydick, Bruce - 2017
The study uses a cluster-randomized trial among 1,578 children from 979 households in rural El Salvador to test the impacts of TOMS shoe donations on children's time allocation, school attendance, health, self-esteem, and aid dependency. Results indicate high levels of usage and approval of the...
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How Unfair is the Inequality of Wage Earnings in Russia? Estimates from Panel Data
Tiwari, Sailesh - 2017
This paper attempts to determine the extent to which inequality in wage earnings in the Russian Federation is unfair. Unlike other similar attempts that can, at best, produce a lower bound on the estimate of the share of inequality that is unfair, this paper exploits the longitudinal nature of...
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Fifteen Years of Inequality in Latin America : How Have Labor Markets Helped?
Azevedo, Joao Pedro - 2017
changes in labor income inequality (hourly wages) into a quantity effect (capturing changes in the distribution of workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974549