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Globalization and State Capitalism : Assessing Vietnam's Accession to the WTO

Baccini, Leonardo - 2017

What do state-owned enterprises (SOEs) do? How do they respond to market incentives? Can we expect substantial efficiency gains from trade liberalization in economies with a strong presence of SOEs? Using a new dataset of Vietnamese firms we document a set of empirical regularities...

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Reducing Tariffs According to WTO Accession Rules : The Case of Vietnam

Barslund Fosse, Henrik - 2011

When Vietnam entered WTO in 2007 it was granted an accession period up to 2014. During this period tariffs would have … Vietnam has many state-owned enterprises that do not behave in a profit maximizing way. The model simulations show that the … of income will take place among the poor rural households in Vietnam. We propose other tariff reforms that both raise …

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Poverty and Welfare Measurement on the Basis of Prospect Theory

Jantti, Markus - 2013

equivalent income. These differences are illustrated using household-level panel data from Russia and Vietnam …

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The Interrelationship between Formal and Informal Decentralization and its Impact on Sub-Central Governance Performance : The Case of Vietnam

Thanh, Thuy Vu - 2012

formal and informal decentralization across 64 provinces of Vietnam. This paper finds that the formally decentralized system …

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Direct and Indirect Effects Based on Difference-in-Differences with an Application to Political Preferences Following the Vietnam Draft Lottery

Deuchert, Eva - 2018

provide an empirical application based on the Vietnam draft lottery, where we analyse the impact of the random draft lottery …

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Skill Premiums and the Supply of Young Workers in Germany

Glitz, Albrecht - 2017

In this paper, we study the development and underlying drivers of skill premiums in Germany between 1980 and 2008. We show that the significant increase in the medium to low skill wage premiums since the late 1980s was almost exclusively concentrated among the group of workers aged 30 or below....

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Wealth Inequality and Externalities from Ex Ante Skill Heterogeneity

Angelopoulos, Konstantinos - 2017

This paper develops an incomplete markets model with state dependent (Markovian) stochastic earnings processes and ex ante skill heterogeneity corresponding to being university educated or not. Using the Wealth and Assets Survey for Great Britain, we find that the university educated group has...

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The Role of Trade and Offshoring in the Determination of Relative Wages and Child Labour

Cigno, Alessandro - 2017

Incorporating family decisions in a two-period.model of the world economy, we predict that trade liberalization raises the skill premium and reduces child labour in developing countries where the adult labour force is sufficiently well educated to attract production activities from abroad that...

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International Emigrant Selection on Occupational Skills

Patt, Alexander - 2017

We present the first evidence that international emigrant selection on education and earnings materializes through occupational skills. Combining novel data from a representative Mexican task survey with rich individual-level worker data, we find that Mexican migrants to the United States have...

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Per Capita Income and the Demand for Skills

Caron, Justin - 2017

Almost all of the literature about the growth of income inequality and the relationship between skilled and unskilled wages approaches the issue from the production side of general equilibrium (skill-biased technical change, international trade). Here, we add a role for income-dependent demand...

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