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Trade Liberalisation Does Not Always Raise Wage Premia : Evidence from Ugandan Districts
Calì, Massimiliano - 2012
The process of economic integration over the past two decades has been accompanied by an expanding income wedge between skilled and unskilled workers in many developing countries. This was also the case for Ugandan wage employees during the 1990s, which was a period of abrupt trade opening and...
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Remittances, household welfare, and the COVID-19 pandemic in Tajikistan
Yamada, Eiji; Shimizutani, Satoshi; Murakami, Enerelt - In: Asian development review : studies of Asian and pacific … 39 (2022) 2, pp. 147-174
Remittance inflows are now the largest source of external financing to developing countries, but little research has yet firmly established the effect of remittances on household welfare. We investigate the case of Tajikistan, one of the most heavily remittance-dependent countries in the world....
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Income and consumption inequality in China : a comparative approach with India
Gradín, Carlos; Wu, Binbin - 2019
We analyse income and expenditure distribution in China in a comparative perspective with India. These countries represent extreme cases in the relationship of inequality to both wellbeing indicators. Income is more highly concentrated than expenditure in India, especially at the top of the...
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Consumption inequality in urban China, 1995-2013
Xia, Qingjie; Li, Shi; Song, Lina - 2017
We use CHIP data from 1995, 2002, and 2013 to investigate inequality in urban household consumption expenditures …. Overall inequality in urban household consumption expenditures measured by the Gini coefficient decreased slightly from 0 … to a greater extent. However, the percentile ratio of p90/p10 shows that consumption inequality always increased. In …
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The unintended long-run impacts of agro-terrorism in Brazil
Barreto, Yuri; Oliveira, Rodrigo Carvalho - 2022
This paper studies the unintended long-run effects of a permanent agricultural shock led by agro-terrorism in Brazil on the education and labour market. We explore the witches' broom outbreak in cocoa farms in the world's second most important cocoa production region until 1989, the southeast of...
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Should We Track Migrant Households When Collecting Household Panel Data? Household Relocation, Economic Mobility and Attrition Biases in the Rural Philippines
Fuwa, Nobuhiko - 2011
determinants of per capita household consumption and of its growth rate. Many households relocate for non-economic reasons, and to …
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Restructuring of the international clothing and textile trade network : the role of Italy and Portugal
Schütz, Marlies Hanna; Palan, Nicole - In: Journal of economic structures : JES; the official … 5 (2016) 16, pp. 1-29
Since the 1990s, the clothing and textile (C&T)-industry has been tremendously affected by changes in technology, trade costs, and the institutional environment. This paper studies the restructuring of C&T-trade from the perspective of Europe's two most prominent C&T-goods producing...
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Formalizing Informal Cross-Border Trade : Evidence From One-Stop-Border-Posts in Uganda
Siu, Jade - 2021
Informal trade is pervasive between sub-Saharan African countries. This study examines the relationship between trade informality and trade costs. More specifically, using an augmented gravity model, I exploit time and custom point variation in the introduction of a border facility which is...
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Measuring poverty dynamics with synthetic panels based on repeated cross-sections
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Lanjouw, Peter - 2022
Panel data are rarely available for developing countries. Departing from traditional pseudo-panel methods that require multiple rounds of cross-sectional data to study poverty mobility at the cohort level, we develop a procedure that works with as few as two survey rounds and produces point...
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Measuring poverty dynamics with synthetic panels based on repeated cross-sections
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Lanjouw, Peter - 2022
Panel data are rarely available for developing countries. Departing from traditional pseudo-panel methods that require multiple rounds of cross-sectional data to study poverty mobility at the cohort level, we develop a procedure that works with as few as two survey rounds and produces point...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013471982