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implications, the concept of informality must be deconstructed. We reclassify employment status into three categories: salaried … the detrimental impacts of informality on casual workers. Experimental interventions could be tried along the lines of …
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implications, the concept of informality must be deconstructed. We reclassify employment status into three categories: salaried … the detrimental impacts of informality on casual workers. Experimental interventions could be tried along the lines of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518031
study three sets of outcomes: manufacturing employment, labor informality, and average wage. We find that rising Chinese … import competition, informality has decreased in the former sector and increased in the latter. This change in labor … informality is mainly observed among unskilled workers. The informality of workers with high-school diplomas is not affected by …
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Globalization scholars have long-debated to what extent economic integration, and specifically, mobile private capital constrains national policymaking. With Western capital reeling from the 2008 financial crisis, state-owned capital made inroads globally. China, as the world's largest saver,...
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How does a shifting economic power balance between the United States and China affect the strategic choices of Latin American governments? During the last several decades, Latin America has often relied on a Western development model that aimed to attract global market capital. After excessive...
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How does a shifting economic power balance between the United States and China affect the strategic choices of Latin American governments? During the last several decades, Latin America has often relied on a Western development model that aimed to attract global market capital. After excessive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011148639
How does a shifting economic power balance between the United States and China affect the strategic choices of Latin American governments? During the last several decades, Latin America has often relied on a Western development model that aimed to attract global market capital. After excessive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011148641
Fifteen years after the introduction of highly ambitious social insurance programs for urban Chinese workers, a large number of them remain un-insured. This paper examines the relationship between labor market conditions and social insurance participation among industrial firms in the pre-crisis...
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This research examines the common elements that we can find in the outcomes at a national level resulting from clusters. There are 7 common elements of cluster impact, namely: (1) agglomeration economies; (2) knowledge spillovers; (3) increases in productivity and efficiency; (4) positive impact...
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