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middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to … linear (Brazil and South Africa) to being U- or J-shaped (India, Jordan, and Indonesia), or a mixture of both (Bolivia …
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This study explores the effects of globalization on gender inequality. Specifically, we depict that, in terms of capital market integration, globalization alters the gender gap in wage rates through changes in labor demand for capital-intensive sectors. Consequently, globalization leads to...
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, however, is that there seem to be certain threshold levels of financial and institutional development that an economy needs to …
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employment in Brazil, Mexico and South Africa, distinguishing between dependent and independent workers. For each country, we use … small at all levels in Brazil …
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This paper provides new evidence on the wage gap between informal and formal salary workers in South Africa, Brazil and …
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particular regions of Brazil in the late 19th and early 20th century. We show that municipalities that received settlements …
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This paper uses a unique new data set on nearly a thousand manufacturing firms in Brazil and India to investigate the … power disruption seems to significantly depress adoption and returns to ICT expenditures in India. This may be indicative of …
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Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …
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investigate the impact of electing an educated politician on economic development in the politician's constituency in India. We …
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focuses particularly on how two key countries, China and India, have developed in light of the key recommendations in Peril …
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