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Short and Long-Run Labor Market Effects of Developing Country Exports : Evidence from Bangladesh
Robertson, Raymond - 2020
exogenous to Bangladesh, we instrument export demand with OECD imports to ensure identification. We compare estimates of the …-run, general-equilibrium neoclassical trade theory. As in other studies, we find that the export shock was localized both in terms …This paper studies how a positive export shock - the sharp increase in garment-sector exports that began at the end of …
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Disentangling the Wage Impacts of Offshoring on a Developing Country : Theory and Policy
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu - 2016
The various channels through which a reduction in the cost of offshoring can improve wages in a developed country are by now well understood. But does a similar reduction in the offshoring cost also benefit workers in the world's factories in developing countries? Using a parsimonious...
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Aid, Growth, and Jobs
Fields, Gary - 2013
Various development objectives are worthy, but to my mind, one objective dominates all others: reducing the scourge of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087872
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Making Aid Work : Governance and Decentralization
Epstein, Gil S. - 2015
Donor aid organizations (DAOs) are multi-layered and multi-dimensional bureaucracies with many departments trying to find solutions to problems for countries, investing staff resources and effort into having an effect. A department may come into conflict with other departments because of...
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Temporary Shocks and Offshoring : The Role of External Economies and Firm Heterogeneity
Mitra, Devashish; Jha, Priyaranjan - 2007
We construct a model of offshoring with externalities and firm heterogeneity. Due to the presence of externalities, temporary shocks like the Y2K problem can have permanent effects, i.e., they can permanently raise the extent of offshoring in an industry. Also, the initial advantage of a country...
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The Effects of Development on Migration : Theoretical Issues and New Empirical Evidence
Vogler, Michael; Rotte, Ralph - 2021
issue: the complex relationship of development and migration. Since the beginning of the 1990s several arguments have been … discussed which hint at the possibility that progress in development of less developed regions might lead to more migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321393
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Financial Constraints and Innovation : Why Poor Countries Don't Catch Up
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2015
This paper examines micro-level channels of how financial development can affect macroeconomic outcomes like the level … of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm …'s innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey data which provides direct measures for innovations and firm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039087
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Openness and Technological Innovations in Developing Countries : Evidence from Firm-Level Surveys
Almeida, Rita - 2007
This paper examines international technology transfers using firm-level data across 43 developing countries. Our findings show that exporting and importing activities are important channels for the transfer of technology. Majority foreign-owned firms are less likely to engage in technological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776490
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International Labor Mobility and Child Work in Developing Countries
De Paoli, Anna S. - 2014
This paper investigates the labor market effect of international migration on child work in countries of origin. We use an original cross-country survey dataset, which combines information on international migration with detailed individual-level data on child labor at age 5-14 in a wide range...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055898
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Working from Home in Developing Countries
Gottlieb, Charles - 2020
We examine workers' ability to work from home, as well as their propensity to actually work from home in developing countries. We use worker-level STEP data covering the task content of jobs to measure the ability to work from home. While the ability to WFH is low in developing countries, it...
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