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Tariffs, Social Status, and Gender in India

Anukriti, S; Kumler, Todd J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

) have increased in response to trade liberalization. Thus, altered expectations about future returns from daughters relative …

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North-South Technology Spillovers: The Relative Impact of Openness and Foreign R&D

Schiff, Maurice; Wang, Yanling - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

larger productivity gains from trade liberalization than previously thought. …

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Brain Drain in Globalization: A General Equilibrium Analysis from the Sending Countries' Perspective

Marchiori, Luca; Shen, I-Ling; Docquier, Frédéric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

The paper assesses the global effects of brain drain on developing economies and quantifies the relative sizes of various static and dynamic impacts. By constructing a unified generic framework characterized by overlapping-generations dynamics and calibrated to real data, this study incorporates...

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Employment Outcomes and the Interaction Between Product and Labor Market Deregulation: Are They Substitutes or Complements?

Fiori, Giuseppe; Nicoletti, Giuseppe; Scarpetta, Stefano; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper provides a systematic empirical investigation of the effect of product market liberalization on employment …

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Privatization and Changes in the Wage Structure: Evidence from Firm Personnel Records

Melly, Blaise; Puhani, Patrick A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We investigate the wage effects of privatization using person-level firm-based panel datasets from one privatized and one nonprivatized public sector firm in the same country for the years immediately before and after privatization. Thus, we can analyze the before-after effects of privatization...

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Reform Redux: Measurement, Determinants and Reversals

Campos, Nauro F.; Horváth, Roman - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We construct objective measures of privatization, internal and external liberalization reform efforts, across countries … external liberalization and privatization, concentration of political power drives internal liberalization, and democracy … internal liberalization reversals, and OECD growth increase that of external liberalization reversals. We replicate previous …

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Southern African Economic Integration: Evidence from an Augmented Gravity Model

Warin, Thierry; Wunnava, Phanindra V.; Tengia, Optat; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper investigates the feasibility of creating a common-currency union consisting of 16 countries in Southern Africa. We estimate an augmented-gravity model that includes public deficit, public debt, public expenditure, inflation, and the foreign reserves position. We also integrate...

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Preferential Market Access into the Chinese Market: How Good is it for Africa?

Co, Catherine Y.; Dimova, Ralitza - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

In 2005 China provided duty-free access to 190 items from 25 least developed sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Three years later duty-free access was extended to 454 items from 31 SSA LDCs. We find no evidence that China's preferential market access program for the least developed sub-Saharan...

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Poverty, Labour Markets and Trade Liberalization in Indonesia

Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Sparrow, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We measure the effects of trade liberalization over the period of 1993-2002 on regional poverty levels in 259 … liberalization. Among the potential channels behind this effect, we highlight the formalization of the unskilled labour force and …

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Child Labor and Trade Liberalization in Indonesia

Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Sparrow, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We examine the effects of trade liberalization on child work in Indonesia. Our estimation strategy identifies … exposure. Our main findings show that increased exposure to trade liberalization is associated with a decrease in child work … rural areas. Favorable income effects for the poor, induced by trade liberalization, are likely to be the dominating effects …

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