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Informality, productivity, and enforcement in West Africa: A firm level analysis
(2010-06-25)
The informal sector accounts for a very large share in African economies, both in terms of GDP and employment. However, most national surveys on the informal sector focus on labor market issues and informal employment ...
Concepts of Fairness in the Global Trading System
(2006-05-24)
How are we to assess the fairness of the global trading system as embodied in the GATT/WTO? Opinions about what constitutes fairness differ widely, and there is surely no incontrovertible yardstick. But can we be clearer ...
Romani Employment in Hungary After the Post-Communist Transiti
(2007-09-13)
Employment rate of Romanies is very low in Central and Eastern Europe. In Hungary, it is less than half of the national average. The gap emerged in the early years of the post-communist transition and slightly widened ...
Women's Working Status and Physical Spousal Violence in India
(2007-09-12)
Empirical fndings as well as theoretical predictions in the marriage bargaining literature suggest that women's fnancial independence has a positive effect on their empowerment. Findings in the domestic violence literature, ...
International Reserves and Underdeveloped Capital Markets
(2010-06-11)
International reserve accumulation by developing countries is just one example of the puzzling behavior of international capital flows. Capital should flow to where its return is highest, which ought to be where capital ...
Firm Heterogeneity, Informal Wage and Good Governance
(2010-09-29)
We provide an analysis of enforcement policies applicable to informal labor market in a framework with heterogeneous firms, endogenous determination of informal wage and politically dictated strategies. We argue that firms ...
Computational Analysis of APEC Trade Liberalization
(2008-06-27)
In this study, we use the Michigan Model of World Production and Trade to analyze the economic welfare effects of APEC free trade, unilateral free trade for individual APEC members, and global free trade for all countries/regions ...
Cross-Border Target Selection and Investor Protection Disparity
(2009-09-10)
Underperforming firms in emerging markets have little access to foreign capital is a well-documented but little understood phenomenon. I argue that this phenomenon is due to the gap in the strength of investor protection ...
Labor Productivity Growth, Informal Wage and Capital Mobility: A General Equilibrium Analysis
(2007-09-13)
The recent growth experience in India highlights the role of skill-based service sector and productivity improvement rather than a significant rise in physical capital accumulation. In this context we study the possible ...