qualitative and quantitative data, including several thousand interviews with former slaves, letters, labor contracts, memoirs …

qualitative and quantitative data, including several thousand interviews with former slaves, letters, labor contracts, memoirs …

The paper investigates the labor market and social impacts of the global financial and economic crisis in Asia and the …, and remittances data to assess the employment and social consequences of the crisis, including falling demand for labor … provides some projections of the impact on unemployment, vulnerable employment, working poverty, and labor productivity in the …

abundant labor force, rich natural resources, and geographical location.But the country faces many development challenges to … location between the People’s Republic of China and India, and act as a conduit between South and Southeast Asia.In order to …

, the resulting estimates, labor productivity, and the characteristics of informal sector production units. …

emerge, when labor forces change according to the 2007 UN population projections. It finds that demographic factors are no … with the yen carry-trade; and that China is key to understanding Asia's demographic impact on the world. It also finds that … Asia offers the greatest arbitrage opportunities worldwide during the demographic transition and has the greatest potential …

In 1994 the World Bank called East Asia's strong economic growth performance a "miracle". Trade openness, high savings … was left unexplained. Research in the ensuing years has shown that when demographic change in East Asia is taken into … account, the miracle is explained. These earlier studies used the 1960-1990 sample period, but since 1990 Asia has undergone …

dynamic evolution of past variation in birth and death rates, is producing a significant shift in age structure in Asia. The … consequences of population aging depend on behavioral responses to the shift in age structure: the female labor force participation … and economic growth. The results suggest that population aging may not significantly impede economic performance in Asia …