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Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis

Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

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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Earnings Differences between Chinese and Indian Wage Earners, 1987–2004

Bargain, Olivier; Bhaumik, Sumon K.; Chakrabarty, Manisha; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

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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Perspectives from the Happiness Literature and the Role of New Instruments for Policy Analysis

Praag, Bernard M.S. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

After having been ignored for a long time by economists, happiness is becoming an object of serious research in 21st century economics. In Section 2 we sketch the present status of happiness economics. In Section 3 we consider the practical applicability of happiness economics, retaining the...

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Economic History or History of Economics? A Review Essay on Sylvia Nasar's Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius

Ashenfelter, Orley - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

In this essay I review Sylvia Nasar's long awaited new history of economics, Grand Pursuit. I describe how the book is an economic history of the period from 1850-1950, with distinguished economists' stories inserted in appropriate places. Nasar's goal is to show how economists work, but also to...

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Do Workers Really Benefit From Their Social Networks?

Fontaine, François - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper provides a simple matching model in which unemployed workers and employers in large firms can be matched together through social networks or through more "formal" methods of search. We show that networks do not necessarily add new externalities and that some results previously...

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A Call for Comparative Research: Consequences of a Rising Income Inequality for State Activities

Neubäumer, Renate - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

The aim of this discussion paper is not only to activate a debate over the interrelation between rising income inequality and economic policy measures but also to initiate comparative research in several European countries and North America. It discusses the consequences of a rising income...

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Ökonometrische Methoden zur Evaluierung kausaler Effekte der Wirtschaftspolitik

Kugler, Franziska; Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

wirtschaftlich erreichen. In empirischen Studien, die als Grundlage für evidenzbasierte Wirtschaftspolitik dienen können, werden …-experimentellen Designs sollen der Wirtschaftspolitik helfen zu lernen, was funktioniert. …

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Marital Violence and Women's Employment and Property Status: Evidence from North Indian Villages

Bhattacharya, Manasi; Bedi, Arjun S.; Chhachhi, Amrita - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Dominant development policy approaches recommend women's employment on the grounds that it facilitates their empowerment, which in turn is believed to be instrumental in enhancing women's well-being. However, empirical work on the relationship between women's employment status and their...

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Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in India

Azam, Mehtabul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

In this paper, we examine the intergenerational occupational mobility in India among men born during 1945-85. Following …

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Subcontracting and the Size and Composition of the Informal Sector: Evidence from Indian Manufacturing

Moreno-Monroy, Ana Isabel; Pieters, Janneke; Erumban, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper analyzes the relationship between formal sector subcontracting and the evolution of the informal sector using nationally representative survey data of Indian manufacturing enterprises for the period 1995-2006. In these years of fast economic growth, subcontracting by formal...

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