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Globalization: A Woman's Best Friend? Exporters and the Gender Wage Gap
Javorcik, Beata; Boler, Esther Ann; Ulltveit-Moe, Karen … - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2015
While the impact of globalization on income inequality has received a lot of attention, little is known about its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011196720
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Increasing Wage Inequality in China: Efficiency Versus Equity?.
Knight, J.; Song, L. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1999
Increasing wage inequality is a feature of many economies in recent years, and the same is true of China. Whereas in most countries it is normally interpreted as a move from one market equilibrium to another, in China it is more likely to reflect a move away from extreme disequilibirum. Two...
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Who Shrunk China?  Puzzles in the Measurement of Real GDP
Neary, Peter; Feenstra, Robert C. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2011
The latest World Bank estimates of real GDP per capita for China are significantly lower than previous ones.  We review possible sources of this puzzle and conclude that it reflects a combination of factors, including substitution bias in consumption, reliance on urban prices which we estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009320945
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The Nature of Employment in India's Services Sector: Exploring the Heterogeneity
Nayyar, Gaurav - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2009
For some observers, the dramatic growth of the services sector in India reflects rapid strides made by educated … comprises wages, job security and social protection.  Using different econometric models to analyse household survey data from … India in 1993-94 and 2004-05, we find the following.  First, sub-sectors of services are generally either 'good' or 'bad …
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Human Capital, Exports, and Wages
Fafchamps, Marcel - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007
differential can be explained by the fact that exporters have a larger workforce and more capital. We also find that the wages of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010605000
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How Flexible are Wages in Response to Local Unemployment in South Africa?
Kingdon, Geeta; Knight, John - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2005
of wages to local unemployment. Examining this spatial relationship, we find that the elasticity of wages to local … on wages. …
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Urban Insiders versus Rural Outsiders: Complementarity or Competition in China`s Urban Labour Market?
Knight, John; Yueh, Linda - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2004
In China urban residents have traditionally been protected against labour market competition from rural-urban migrants. Over the period of urban economic reform, rural-urban migration was allowed to increase in order to fill the employment gap as growth of labour demand outstripped that of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090619
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The Role of Social Capital in the Labour Market in China
Knight, John; Yueh, Linda - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2002
Social capital is thought to play an economic role in the labour market. It may be particularly pertinent in one that is in transition from an administered to a market-oriented system. One factor that may determine success in the underdeveloped Chinese labour market is thus guanxi, the Chinese...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051173
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A Spatial Analysis of Wages and Incomes in Urban China: Divergent Means, Convergent Inequality.
Knight, J.; Shi, L.; Renwei, Z. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1999
Two interesting results are obtained from CASS national household surveys of 1988 and 1995. First, there was a tendency for intra-provincial inequality in both earnings per worker and household income per capita not only to rise in each province but also to converge across provinces. Second,...
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Regional Convergence and Catch-up in India between 1960 and 1992
Trivedi, Kamakshya - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2002
among the 16 major states in India between 1960 and 1992. The results - estimated using OLS, the within-group LSDV estimator …
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