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Tariff Pass-Through and the Distributional Effects of Trade Liberalization
Ural Marchand, Beyza - Department of Economics, University of Alberta - 2011
the effect on prices of tradeable goods and wages. The cost of consumption for each household is affected by the domestic … Consumption Surveys are used for the analysis. The price transmission mechanisms are estimated for both rural and urban areas to …
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Tariff pass-through and the distributional effects of trade liberalization
Ural Marchand, Beyza - In: Journal of Development Economics 99 (2012) 2, pp. 265-281
the effect on prices of tradable goods and wages. The cost of consumption for each household is affected by the domestic … Consumption Surveys are used for the analysis. The price transmission mechanisms are estimated for both rural and urban areas to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010599689
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Trade Liberalisation Does Not Always Raise Wage Premia : Evidence from Ugandan Districts
Calì, Massimiliano - 2012
The process of economic integration over the past two decades has been accompanied by an expanding income wedge between skilled and unskilled workers in many developing countries. This was also the case for Ugandan wage employees during the 1990s, which was a period of abrupt trade opening and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014168248
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Remittances, household welfare, and the COVID-19 pandemic in Tajikistan
Yamada, Eiji; Shimizutani, Satoshi; Murakami, Enerelt - In: Asian development review : studies of Asian and pacific … 39 (2022) 2, pp. 147-174
Remittance inflows are now the largest source of external financing to developing countries, but little research has yet firmly established the effect of remittances on household welfare. We investigate the case of Tajikistan, one of the most heavily remittance-dependent countries in the world....
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Food for Fuel: The Effect of the US Biofuel Mandate on Poverty in India
Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Hubert, Marie-Helene; Ural … - 2018
RFS on world food prices and their impact on household level consumption and wage incomes in India. We first develop a … effect of the price shock on household welfare through consumption and wage incomes. Poor rural households suffer significant … welfare losses due to higher prices of consumption goods, which are regressive. However they benefit from a rise in wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931749
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Food for fuel: The effect of U.S. energy policy on Indian poverty
Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Hubert, Marie-Hélène; Ural … - 2012
10% for most of these commodities. Using Indian micro-level survey data for consumption and income, we carefully estimate … the effect of these price increases on household welfare. We account for negative consumption impacts as well as the … positive effects through wages and income. We consider both perfect and imperfect pass-through from world to domestic prices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283922
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Food for Fuel: The Effect of the U.S. Biofuel Mandate on Poverty in India
Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Hubert, Marie-Hélène; Ural … - Department of Economics, University of Alberta - 2012
10% for most of these commodities. Using Indian micro-level survey data for consumption and income, we carefully estimate … the effect of these price increases on household welfare. We account for negative consumption impacts as well as the … positive effects through wages and income. We consider both perfect and imperfect pass-through from world to domestic prices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011266376
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Food for Fuel: The Effect of the U.S. Biofuel Mandate on Poverty in India
Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Hubert, Marie-Hélène; … - CESifo - 2012
then estimated using data on consumption and wage incomes. We estimate pass-through elasticities from time-series data then … compute the negative consumption effects and positive wage impacts under perfect and imperfect pass-through from world to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011123798
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Food for Fuel: The Effect of the U.S. Biofuel Mandate on Poverty in India
Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Hubert, Marie-Helene; Marchand, … - Department of Economics, Tufts University
then estimated using data on consumption and wage incomes. We estimate pass-through elasticities from time-series data then … compute the negative consumption effects and positive wage impacts under perfect and imperfect pass-through from world to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011166613
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Who gains from trade protection in Ghana: A household-level analysis?
Ackah, Charles; Morrissey, Oliver; Appleton, Simon - 2007
In this paper, we present one of the first direct microeconometric studies of the impact of trade protection on household income in Ghana. Tariff measures at the two-digit ISIC level are matched to Ghanaian household survey data for 1991/92 and 1998/99 to represent the tariff for the industry in...
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