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time there is evidence of net export diversion in the SAPTA. Bangladesh, India and Pakistan are expected to gain from …
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Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector … China and the other BRICS. These differences are down to differences in industrial policy: in China industrial policy …
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This paper is one of the first comprehensive attempts to compare earnings in urban China and India over the recent … levels in China and significantly accentuates the reversal of the wage gap in favour of this country for the first half of …
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contribution to the overall integration. Finally, we investigate the links between globalization and labor market in India …
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This paper examines changes in the wage structure in urban India during the past two decades (1983-2004) across the … increasing effects of tertiary education suggests that wage inequality in urban India may increase further in the near future as …
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activities. Thus, unlike recent studies of child work in India’s South Asian neighbors of Bangladesh and Pakistan, this paper … children’s propensities to work and to attend school in rural northern India in a bid to assess the extent of trade-off between …
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India. This paper provides evidence on the consequences of the expansion of prenatal ultrasound use on sex-selection. We … exploit state-by-cohort variation in ultrasound use in India as a unique quasi-experiment. We find that sex-selective abortion …-selection in India. …
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We study the surprisingly low level and stagnation of female labor force participation rates in urban India between …
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India is a country characterized by a huge informal sector. At the same time, it is a country where the extent of …
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expenditures in India. Contrary to most previous research, I find evidence of discrimination against girls. Results at the all-India …
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