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Post-reform trends in wage inequality: The case of urban Bolivia
Spatz, Julius; Steiner, Susan - 2002
This paper seeks to contribute to the ongoing controversy on the distributional effects of structural reforms in developing countries. Applying inequality indices and Fields’ (2001) decomposition methodology to Bolivian household survey data of the years 1989 to 1997, we identify recent trends...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294131
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Post-reform trends in wage inequality : the case of urban Bolivia
Spatz, Julius; Steiner, Susan - 2002
This paper seeks to contribute to the ongoing controversy on the distributional effects of structural reforms in developing countries. Applying inequality indices and Fields' (2001) decomposition methodology to Bolivian household survey data of the years 1989 to 1997, we identify recent trends...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011475841
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Post-Reform Trends in Wage Inequality : The Case of Urban Bolivia
Spatz, Julius; Steiner, Susan - 2014
This paper seeks to contribute to the ongoing controversy on the distributional effects of structural reforms in developing countries. Applying inequality indices and Fields' (2001) decomposition methodology to Bolivian household survey data of the years 1989 to 1997, we identify recent trends...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014108859
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Chapter 70. Labor Regulations, Unions, and Social Protection in Developing Countries : Market Distortions or Efficient Institutions?
Freeman, Richard B. - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 5, (pp. 4657-4702). 2010
This chapter reviews what economists have learned about the impact of labor market institutions, defined broadly as government regulations and union activity on labor outcomes in developing countries. It finds that: (1) Labor institutions vary greatly among developing countries but less than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025732
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Air pollution and mortality impacts of coal mining : evidence from coalmine accidents in China
Chu, Yin; Holladay, J. Scott; Qiu, Yun; Tian, Xian-Liang; … - 2023
We leverage the timing of coalmine accidents to examine the effect of coal mining on air pollution. Safety regulations … mandate that coal mining be suspended if a mine experiences an accident with 10 or more fatalities. We use a stacked … pollution data at the county-day level with the dates of accidents to show that on average, suspending coal mining reduces local …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014306904
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Wie beeinflussen die politische Lage und FDI das Wirtschaftswachstum? : Empirische Evidenz für die Ukraine und Polen
Levoshko, Tamila - 2016
Die vorliegende Studie untersucht erstmalig für die Ukraine und Polen, wie der Wechsel der vertretenen Regierungspartei in der Region und die Absorptionsfähigkeit von FDI das regionale Wirtschaftswachstum beeinflussen. Die empirische Analyse erfolgt auf regionaler Ebene für den Zeitraum...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011478551
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WTO accession and the political economy of state-owned enterprise reform in Vietnam
2014
Conventional wisdom holds that international trade agreements can be used as external pressures and credible commitments to overcome opposition and lock in domestic economic reforms. This belief, however, underestimates the ability of politicians to use international trade agreements to leverage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012004331
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WTO accession and the political economy of state-owned enterprise reform in Vietnam
Vũ Thành Tự Anh - 2014
Conventional wisdom holds that international trade agreements can be used as external pressures and credible commitments to overcome opposition and lock in domestic economic reforms. This belief, however, underestimates the ability of politicians to use international trade agreements to leverage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010459270
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The impact of trade liberalization on firms' product and labor market power
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Wiersma, Quint - 2020
This paper examines the impact of trade liberalization on firms' product and labor market power. We estimate the prevalence and intensity of firm-level price-cost markups and either wage markups or wage markdowns. We take the dependence between these model-consistent measures of product and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012169328
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The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Firms' Product and Labor Market Power
Dobbelaere, Sabien - 2020
This paper examines the impact of trade liberalization on firms' product and labor market power. We estimate the prevalence and intensity of firm-level price-cost markups and either wage markups or wage markdowns. We take the dependence between these model-consistent measures of product and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842037