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Trade Liberalization, Firm Performance, and Labor Market Outcomes in the Developing World : What Can We Learn from Micro-Level Data?

Epifani, Paolo - 2003

reviews the micro-level evidence on the effects of trade and investment liberalization in the developing world. He focuses, in particular, on the effects of the 1991 trade reform in India since it provides an excellent controlled experiment in which the effects of a drastic trade regime change...

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The Misallocation of Pay and Productivity in the Public Sector : Evidence from the Labor Market for Teachers

Bau, Natalie; Das, Jishnu - 2017

This paper uses a unique dataset of both public and private sector primary school teachers and their students to present among the first estimates in a low-income country of (a) teacher effectiveness; (b) teacher value added (TVA) and its correlates; and (c) the link between TVA and teacher...

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Stunted Growth : Why Don't African Firms Create More Jobs?

Iacovone, Leonardo; Ramachandran, Vijaya; Schmidt, Martin B. - 2014

growth of firms and distort the allocation of resources away from better-performing firms, hence reducing their potential for …

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Interactions Among Donors' Aid Allocations : Evidence from an Exogenous World Bank Income Threshold

Knack, Stephen F.; Xu, Lixin Colin; Zou, Ben - 2014

This study investigates the effects of the World Bank's exogenously-determined income threshold for eligibility for concessionary International Development Association (IDA) loans on the allocations of bilateral donors. The donors might interpret the World Bank's policies and allocations across...

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Climate Change, Conflict, and Cooperation : Global Analysis of the Resilience of International River Treaties to Increased Water Variability

Blankespoor, Brian; De Stefano, Lucia; Dinar, Shlomi; … - 2014

water allocation mechanisms and institutional features provide better opportunities for mitigating conflict given that water … allocation issues tend to be most salient among riparians. Water-related events from the Basins at Risk events database are used … governed by treaties with water allocation mechanisms exhibiting both flexibility and specificity evince more cooperative …

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International Climate Regime beyond 2012 : Are Quota Allocation Rules Robust to Uncertainty?

Crassous, Renaud; Lecocq, Franck - 2003

international allowance market to quantify the economic consequences of the main post-Kyoto quota allocation rules proposed in the …

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How Has Environment Mattered? An Analysis of World Bank Resource Allocation

Acharya, Anjali; Ijjasz-Vasquez, Ede Jorge; Hamilton, Kirk - 2013

risk to the analysis, they test an optimal allocation model and find that it is consistent with the Bank's actual lending … allocation model to develop measures of lending opportunity by environmental theme for the Bank's partner countries. …

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Financial Development and Growth in the Short and Long Run

Fisman, Raymond; Love, Inessa - 2013

The authors analyze the relationship between financial development and inter-industry resource allocation in the short …

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Public-Private Sector Wage Differentials and Returns to Education in Djibouti

An??s Casero, Paloma; Seshan, Ganesh - 2012

Do public sector workers earn a wage premium in Djibouti and are the returns to education different across the sectors? The authors estimate private and public sector wage earnings using 1996 household survey data, while controlling for selectivity using Heckman's two stage approach. They find...

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Earnings Premiums and Penalties for Self-Employment and Informal Employees around the World

Gindling, Thomas; Mossaad, Nadwa; Newhouse, David Locke - 2016

This paper examines the earnings premiums associated with different types of employment in 73 countries. Workers are divided into four categories: non-professional own-account workers, employers and own-account professionals, informal wage employees, and formal wage employees. Approximately half...

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