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This paper explores how the expansion of labor-intensive manufacturing exports resulting from the United States-Vietnam … Bilateral Trade Agreement in 2001 translated into wages of skilled and unskilled workers and the skill premium in Vietnam … panel individuals from the Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys of 2002 and 2004, and addressing the issue of …
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Gender-based wage discrimination is a highly researched area of labor economics. However, most studies on this topic have focused on schooling and paid limited attention to the mechanisms through which cognitive and noncognitive skills influence wages. This paper uses data from adults in seven...
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Changing population age structures are shaping the trajectories of development in many countries, bringing opportunities and challenges. While aging has been a matter of concern for upper-middle and high-income economies, rapid population growth is set to continue in the poorest countries over...
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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...
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of catch-up growth across the four Young Lives countries (Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam). In addition, the paper …
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question by combining a nonexperimental impact evaluation of a large-scale rural roads project in Vietnam with qualitative data …
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nearly 1500 rural piped water customers in Vietnam reveal evidence of habit formation. A novel test based on the Euler …
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Vietnam's power sector has developed rapidly since the 1990s to become a top performer among developing countries. This … success has occurred mostly under a state-owned utility, Electricity Vietnam. Select market-oriented reforms to date have also … long-term sustainability without jeopardizing security of supply for the fast-growing economy. Vietnam's 2004 Electricity …
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suitable price data. In this paper, data from Vietnam are used to test this method against benchmarks provided by multilateral …
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adulthood, using a novel proxy for stress: risk of military induction in the United States during the Vietnam War. The paper … add to the evidence on the lasting consequences of stress, and indicate that induction risk during the Vietnam War may, in …
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