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Changing wage structure and education in Vietnam 1993-1998: The roles of demand

Liu, Amy - 2005

This paper examines the changes in relative earnings of workers with different education levels during Vietnam’s transition. It is found that females enjoy a higher return to education than males do in 1998, reversing the situation observed five years ago. A large fall in the returns to...

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Changes in the wage structure in EU countries

Christopoulou, Rebekka; Jimeno Serrano, Juan F.; Lamo, Ana - 2010

We study changes in the wage structures in nine EU countries over 1995-2002 and the role of demand, supply and institutional developments in shaping these changes. Using comparable cross-country microeconomic data, we compute for each country and at each decile of the wage distribution, the part...

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Accounting for changes in the Spanish wage distribution : the role of employment composition

Carrasco, Raquel; Jimeno Serrano, Juan F.; Ortega, A. … - 2011

A pesar de una rápida disminución del desempleo, los salarios reales en España apenas aumentaron durante el periodo 1995-2006. Una posible explicación de este comportamiento se refiere a la importancia de los efectos composición derivados de algunos cambios estructurales, tales como el...

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Clean development mechanism: Perspectives from developing countries

Sari, Agus P.; Meyers, Stephen - 2008

acceptance of CDM. The outgrowth of CDM from a proposal from Brazil to establish a Clean Development Fund gave developing …

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Conservation potential of compact fluorescent lamps in India and Brazil

Gadgil, A.; Martino Jannuzzi, G. de - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP - 2008

electrical energy and peak demand in India and Brazil. Using very conservative assumptions, we find that the cost of conserved … of avoided peak installed capacity is 6 and 9.5 times less than the cost of new installed capacity for India and Brazil … national savings of the order of US $1.2 million per day for India and US $2.5 million per day for Brazil are reached in 10 …

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Projected refined product balances in key Latin American countries: A preliminary examination

2009

Over the years, the East-West Center (EWC) has developed considerable expertise in refinery modeling, especially in the area of forecasting product balances for countries, given planned capacity changes, changes in product demand, changes in crude slates, and changes in product specifications....

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Carbon mitigation potential and costs of forestry options in Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, the Philippines and Tanzania

Sathaye, J.; Makundi, W.; Andrasko, K.; Boer, R.; … - 2009

This paper summarizes studies of carbon (C) mitigation potential and costs of about 40 forestry options in seven developing countries. Each study uses the same methodological approach - Comprehensive Mitigation Assessment Process (COMAP) - to estimate the above parameters between 2000 and 2030....

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DETERMINANTES DA RENDA DO TRABALHO NO BRASIL NO PERÍODO DE 2002 A 2006.

Santos, Gilnei Costa; Bastos, Patricia Melo; Rocha, … - 2008

. -----------------------------------------------Brazil represents among the countries with larger level of disparity of income of the world, in agreement with the Report of … Africa and Malawi have a degree of larger inequality than of Brazil, what justifies a vast literature on the determinant of … main focus to generate revenue equations to Brazil in the years from 2002 to 2006, dedicating special attention to the …

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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SPATIAL PRICE TRANSMISSION AND GEOGRAPHICAL DISTANCE IN BRAZIL

Hernandez-Villafuerte, Karla Vanessa - 2011

Brazil`s rice markets. In response to changes of the agricultural policies during the period of investigation, the presence …

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Institutions and Entrepreneurship Development in Russia: A Comparative Perspective

Estrin, Saul; Aidis, Ruta; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2007

country samples and second, in more detail, with Brazil and Poland. Our results provide strong evidence that Russia …

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