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Trade Liberalization, Female Labor Force Participation and Economic Growth
Sauré, Philip U. - 2008
This research argues that the interaction between international trade and female labor force participation has played a significant role in the process of development. The main concern of our study is to show how differences in per household capital stocks, via international specialization,...
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Raising the Economic Participation of Women in India : A New Growth Engine?
Sorsa, Piritta - 2015
Economic participation of women in the labour force or as entrepreneurs is low compared to peers and has declined over the past decades despite strong growth. The gap with men is over 50%--the largest among key emerging markets. Participation declines with higher education achievements and...
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Asia's industrial transformation : the role of manufacturing and global value chains
Felipe, Jesus - 2018
This paper argues that the single most important factor that explains East Asia's development success was its fast … as the "engine of growth." It is in the context of industrialization that openness played an important role in East Asia … exchange) and industrialization. Part 1 of the paper documents the extent of structural transformation in developing Asia …
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PlusCa Change? evidence on global trends in gender norms and stereotypes
Seguino, Stephanie - In: Feminist Economics 13 (2007) 2, pp. 1-28
Gender norms and stereotypes that perpetuate inequality are deeply embedded in social and individual consciousness and, as a result, are resistant to change. Gender stratification theories propose that women's control over material resources can increase bargaining power to leverage change in...
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Evaluating the conditional convergence hypothesis in the post-1989 globalization period
Nell, Kevin S. - In: Applied economics 52 (2020) 30, pp. 3308-3326
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Globalization and structural change around the world, 1985-2015
Wood, Adrian - In: The World Bank research observer : WBRO 34 (2019) 1, pp. 65-94
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An alternative to the middle-income trap
Bresser-Pereira, Luiz Carlos; Araújo, Eliane Cristina de; … - In: Structural change and economic dynamics : SC+ED 52 (2020), pp. 294-312
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Employment Deindustrialization : Understanding Jobless Growth in the Manufacturing Industry
Gil, Eunsun - 2022
Deindustrialization in advanced countries (especially in the United States) has been discussed since the 1980s, but … what we actually have observed is a distinct pattern of employment deindustrialization rather than a severe decline in the … deindustrialization does exist and its magnitude is substantial despite the persistent importance of manufacturing production in economic …
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Characterising Deindustrialisation : An Analysis of Changes in Manufacturing Employment and Output Internationally
Tregenna, Fiona - 2010
Deindustrialisation is typically conceptualised as a decline in manufacturing as a share of total employment. From a Kaldorian perspective deindustrialisation could have negative implications for long-run growth, given the special growth-pulling properties of manufacturing. However, defining...
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Polska na tle historycznych podziałów przestrzeni europejskiej oraz współczesnych przemian gospodarczych, społecznych i politycznych
Hryniewicz, Janusz - 2015 - Wydanie pierwsze
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