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Immigration and outsourcing: a general equilibrium analysis

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Wall, Howard J. - 2005

This paper analyzes the issues of immigration and outsourcing in a general-equilibrium model of international factor mobility. In our model, legal immigration is controlled through a quota, while outsourcing is determined both by the firms (in response to market conditions) and through...

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A dual policy paradox: why have trade and immigration policies always differed in labor-scarce economies?

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2006

Today's labor-scarce economies have open trade and closed immigration policies, while a century ago they had just the opposite, open immigration and closed trade policies. Why the inverse policy correlation, and why has it persisted for almost two centuries? This paper seeks answers to this dual...

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Sibling death clustering in India: state dependence vs. unobserved heterogeneity

Arulampalam, Wiji; Bhalotra, Sonia - 2006

Data from a range of different environments indicate that the incidence of death is not randomly distributed across families but, rather, that there is a clustering of death amongst siblings. A natural explanation of this would be that there are (observed or unobserved) differences across...

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A comparison and decomposition of reform-era labor force participation rates of China's ethnic minorities and Han majority

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Hughes, James W.; Zhang, Dandan - 2009

). Population census data are used to estimate gender-separated urban labor force participation rates (lfpr) using logit regressions …

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The Output Cost of Gender Discrimination: A Model-Based Macroeconomic Estimate

Cavalcanti, Tiago V. de V.; Tavares, José - 2008

Gender-based discrimination is a pervasive and costly phenomenon. To a greater or lesser extent, all economies present a gender wage gap, associated with lower female labor force participation rates and higher fertility. This paper presents a growth model where saving, fertility and labor market...

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Does a legal ban on sex-selective abortions improve child sex ratios? Evidence from a policy change in India

Nandi, Arindam; Deolalikar, Anil B. - In: Journal of Development Economics 103 (2013) C, pp. 216-228

Despite strong recent economic growth, gender inequality remains a major concern for India. This paper examines the effectiveness of a public policy geared towards the reduction of gender inequality. The national Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostics Techniques (PNDT) Act of 1994, implemented...

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The Double African Paradox: What does selective mortality tell us?

Rouanet, Léa - 2011

We study the relationship between height stature and child mortality in West Africa. This is motivated by two things: understanding the determinants of height, widely used health indicator, and explaining the « double African paradox ». This paradox comes from the fact that Africans are...

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Free Education: For Whom, Where and When?

Azarnert, Leonid - Institut for Miljø og Erhvervsøkonomi, Syddansk … - 2006

capital accumulation at different stages of economic development. The model shows that when fertility is endogenous parental … human capital levels are crucial for implications of free education. At early stages of development, if parental human … of development, if parental human capital is high, the availability of free education crowds out private educational …

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Human Capital Investment and the Gender Division of Labor

Pitt, Mark M.; Rosenzweig, Mark; Hassan, Nazmul - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2010

We use a model of human capital investment and activity choice to explain facts describing gender differentials in the levels and returns to human capital investments. These include the higher return to and level of schooling, the small effect of healthiness on wages, and the large effect of...

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Efficient Delivery of Cash Transfers to the Poor: Improving the Design of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program in Equador

Carrillo, Paul; Jarrin, Juan Ponce - Institute for International Economic Policy (IIEP), … - 2007

Many governments provide monetary transfers to low-income families. The mechanism through which these subsidies are distributed may contain several inefficiencies that diminish the net-value obtained by the recipients. In this paper, we build and estimate a behavioral dynamic model that allows...

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