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• Trade reforms, labor regulations, and labor-demand elasticities: Empirical evidence from India AI翻译
  作者：Hasan, Rana; Mitra, Devashish; Ramaswamy, K. V.
  作者单位：Syracuse University; National Bureau of Economic Research
  摘要：Using industry-level data disaggregated by states, this paper finds a positive impact of trade liberalization on (the absolute values of) labor demand elasticities in the Indian manufacturing sector. The magnitudes of these elasticities turn out to be negatively related to protection levels that vary across industries and over time. Furthermore, we find that these elasticities are not only larger in size for Indian states with more flexible labor regulations, they are also impacted there to a ...
• The effect of foreign acquisition on employment and wages: Evidence from Finnish establishments AI翻译
  作者：Huttunen, Kristiina
  作者单位：Uppsala University
  摘要：This paper examines the effect of foreign acquisition on wages and employment of different skill groups using panel data on Finnish establishments for 1988-2001. Exploiting the availability of a rich set of preacquisition controls, we use various regression and propensity-score matching methods. The results indicate that foreign acquisition has a positive effect on wages. The magnitude of this effect increases with the level of schooling of,the workers. The wage increase is not immediate, but ...
• Precautionary behavior, migrant networks, and household consumption decisions: An empirical analysis using household panel data from rural China AI翻译
  作者：Giles, John; Yoo, Kyeongwon
  作者单位：Michigan State University; The World Bank
  摘要：We develop a test of precautionary behavior in the consumption decisions of rural agricultural households. Among surveyed households facing a median level of consumption risk, 10% of savings can be attributed to a precautionary motive, and this increases to 15% for households with consumption per capita below the poverty line. We next use distant lags of local rainfall shocks uncorrelated with current consumption growth to identify the size of migrant networks outside the village, and then pre...
• Does managed care hurt health? Evidence from Medicaid mothers AI翻译
  作者：Aizer, Anna; Currie, Janet; Moretti, Enrico
  作者单位：Brown University; Columbia University; Center for Economic & Policy Research (CEPR); University of California System; University of California Berkeley; National Bureau of Economic Research
  摘要：Most Americans are now in some form of managed care plan that restricts access to services in order to reduce costs. It is difficult to determine whether these restrictions affect health because individuals and firms self-select into managed care. We investigate the effect of managed care using a California law that required some pregnant women on Medicaid to enter managed care. We use a unique longitudinal database of California births in which we observe changes in the regime faced by indivi...
• Does inward foreign direct investment boost the productivity of domestic firms? AI翻译
  作者：Haskel, Jonathan E.; Pereira, Sonia C.; Slaughter, Matthew J.
  作者单位：University of London; University of London; University College London; National Bureau of Economic Research
  摘要：Are there productivity spillovers from FDI to domestic firms, and, if so, how much should host countries be willing to pay to attract FDI? To examine these questions, we use a plant-level panel covering U.K. manufacturing from 1973 through 1992. Consistent with spillovers, we estimate a robust and significantly positive correlation between a domestic plant's TFP and the foreign-affiliate share of activity in that plant's industry. Typical estimates suggest that a 10-percentage-point increase i...