Rural-Urban Wage Differentials, Unemployment, and Efficiency Wages: An Open Economy Policy Analysis

1998 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 294
Author(s):  
Judith C. Chin
Asian Survey ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 559-580 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joosung J . Lee

This article examines the capabilities of Cambodia's garment industry in the post-safeguard policy era, and its future prospects. It first analyzes the industry's experience pre-2005, then discusses the role of foreign investors and the government's open-economy policy. The paper then looks at post-2005 industry problems and offers some recommendations for future growth.


1993 ◽  
Vol 93 (79) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Julio Santaella ◽  
Pierre-Richard Agénor ◽  
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2005 ◽  
Vol 2005 (835r) ◽  
pp. 1-53
Author(s):  
Christopher J. Erceg ◽  
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Luca Guerrieri ◽  
Christopher J. Gust

1999 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Abid A. Burki

This paper investigates wage differentials between workers in subcontracting and non-subcontracting firms, using data from a recent survey of small manufacturing firms in Gujranwala, Pakistan. The paper finds that subcontracting workers receive a high wage premium and invokes efficiency wage arguments to explain this differential. The paper argues that due to a client/vendor monitoring problem it is optimal for subcontracting firms to pay higher than the market clearing wages. The use of Heckman's two stage procedure to test for sample selection bias fails to give such evidence. A decomposition of the wage differentials indicates that endowment differentials partly explain higher wages for subcontracting workers while the bulk of this wage gap is explained by differential returns to workers' attributes.


2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 487-520 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tor Jacobson ◽  
Per Jansson ◽  
Anders Vredin ◽  
Anders Warne

Author(s):  
Christopher J. Erceg ◽  
Luca Guerrieri ◽  
Christopher J. Gust

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