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Understanding Wage Inequality - Trade, Technology, and Location
Chung, Chul; Kim, Bonggeun - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
This paper investigates the trend of the wage inequality and the metropolitan wage premium in the United States during the 1980s. Two distinct sets of literature documented that the wage inequality between skilled and unskilled workers and the metropolitan wage premium have risen significantly...
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Policy Dilemmas in India - The Impact of Changes in Agricultural Prices on Rural and Urban Poverty
Polaski, Sandra; Panda, Manoj; Ganesh-Kumar, A.; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
prices in order to dampen these effects. In this paper, we explore this dilemma in a CGE model of India that uses a new … wages and/or employment of rural labor, and in some cases spills over into urban labor markets, depressing wages and incomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363420
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Impact of Special Economic Zones on Employment, Poverty and Human Development
Aggarwal, Aradhna - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
India. It identifies three channels through which SEZs address these issues : employment generation, skill formation (human … study examines the sectoral and economic composition of SEZ activities in India. It finds that labour intensive, skill … SEZs lend themselves to human development concerns, in India. Employment generated by zones is remunerative. Wage rates are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363538
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Wage Inequality in Indian Manufacturing - Is it Trade, Technology or Labour Regulations?
Ramaswamy, K.V. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
This paper investigates the question of wage inequality in Indian manufacturing in the years of trade and investment liberalization. The objective is to test the hypothesis of skill biased technological change (SBTC) due to capital-skill complementarity and the impact of labour regulations on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365081
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Globalization, Infrastructure, and Inclusive Growth
Winters, L. Alan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2014
This paper covers threes issues : first, defining and measuring inclusive growth; second, the relationship between international trade and inequality; and third, the links between infrastructure and inequality. Both international trade and infrastructure make it easier for people to exchange...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011134362
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Globalization, Infrastructure, and Inclusive Growth
Winters, L. Alan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2014
This paper covers threes issues : first, defining and measuring inclusive growth; second, the relationship between international trade and inequality; and third, the links between infrastructure and inequality. Both international trade and infrastructure make it easier for people to exchange...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011134394
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The Economic Impact of Globalization in Asia-Pacific - The Case of The Flying Geese
Ljungwall, Christer; Örjan Sjöberg - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
In Pacific Asia, globalization has resulted in rapidly growing international flows of goods, portfolio capital, and …
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Impact of Trade on Employment Generation in Manufacturing in India
Goldar, Bishwanath - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
Analysing the impact of trade on manufacturing employment in India, it is found that exports had a favourable effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365108
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Assessing the Experience of South Asia–East Asia Integration and India’s Role
Wignaraja, Ganeshan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2014
integration process has been led by India and Pakistan with limited participation of smaller South Asian economies. Tackling key … most gains for South Asia and that India has an incentive to include its neighbors in such an arrangement rather than going …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011147326
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Assessing the Experience of South Asia–East Asia Integration and India’s Role
Wignaraja, Ganeshan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2014
integration process has been led by India and Pakistan with limited participation of smaller South Asian economies. Tackling key … most gains for South Asia and that India has an incentive to include its neighbors in such an arrangement rather than going …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011147329