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Income Convergence and the Flow Out of Poverty in India, 1994-2005

Barrientos Quiroga, Paola - 2015

This paper explores the dynamics of income and poverty of rural Indian households, 1994-2005. The estimation strategy … analysis to test whether poor households are more likely to exit poverty than to remain poor. The identification strategy … explicitly addresses issues pertaining to the potential endogeneity and measurement error of initial income and poverty. We find …

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Growth with Equity : Income Inequality in Vietnam, 2002–14

Benjamin, Dwayne - 2016

We use the 2002 through 2014 Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys to construct comparable measures of household income and estimates of income inequality over this high-growth period. We focus on two questions: How have benefits from growth been distributed; and do changes in the structure...

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Globalization and Social Change : Gender-Specific Effects of Trade Liberalization in Indonesia

Kis-Katos, Krisztina - 2017

We analyse the gender-specific effects of trade liberalization on work participation and hours of work and primary participation in domestic duties in Indonesia. We show that female work participation increased in relative terms in regions that were more exposed to input tariff reductions,...

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Trade, Wages, and Productivity

Behrens, Kristian; Mion, Giordano; Murata, Yasusada; … - 2021

We develop a new general equilibrium model of trade with heterogeneous firms, variable demand elasticities and endogenously determined wages. Trade integration favors wage convergence, intensifies competition, and forces the least efficient firms to leave the market, thereby affecting aggregate...

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Offshoring and Skill-Biased Technical Change in the Context of US Protectionism

Agnese, Pablo - 2019

We discuss the effects of offshoring on the labor market in a matching model with endogenous adjustment of educational skills. We carry out a comparative statics analysis and show that offshoring leads to a restructuring of the economy through skill-biased technical change (SBTC) where overall...

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Export-Led Growth after Covid-19 : The Case of Portugal

Naudé, Wim; Cameron, Martin - 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted trade and global value chains. Small open economies such as Portugal are particularly vulnerable. In this paper we consider the impact of the pandemic on the country's exports, arguing that an export-led recovery is possible. The challenge is to identify...

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Demography, Capital Flows and Unemployment

Marchiori, Luca; Pierrard, Olivier - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

This paper contributes to the already vast literature on demography-induced internationalcapital flows by examining the role of labor market imperfections and institutions. We setup atwo-country overlapping generations model with search unemployment, which we calibrateon EU15 and US data. Labor...

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Progressing Towards Efficiency : The Role for Labor Tax Progression in Reforming Social Security

Makarski, Krzysztof; Tyrowicz, Joanna; Komada, Oliwia - 2022

We study interactions between progressive labor taxation and social security reform. Increasing longevity puts fiscal strain that necessitates the social security reform. The current social security is redistributive, thus providing (at least partial) insurance against idiosyncratic income...

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Efficiency Versus Insurance : Capital Income Taxation and Privatizing Social Security

Makarski, Krzysztof; Tyrowicz, Joanna; Komada, Oliwia - 2022

We study the interactions between capital income tax and social security privatization in the context of rising longevity. In an economy with idiosyncratic income shocks, redistributive defined benefit social security provides some insurance against income uncertainty. This insurance comes at...

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The Changing Structure of Immigration to the OECD : What Welfare Effects on Member Countries?

Burzynski, Michal - 2018

We investigate the welfare implications of two pre-crisis immigration waves (1991– 2000 and 2001–2010) and of the post-crisis wave (2011–2015) for OECD native citizens. To do so, we develop a general equilibrium model that accounts for the main channels of transmission of immigration...

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