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Labor Regulations, Employment and Wages: Evidence from India's Apparel Sector

Rana Hasan, Nidhi Kapoor, Aashish Mehta, Asha Sundaram

Asian Economic Policy Review > 12 > 1 > 70 - 90

While India is among the world's largest producers and exporters of apparel products, the sector has not performed to its potential. This study analyzes why this might be so from the perspective of the structure of production in the sector, the most striking aspect of which is a firm size distribution heavily dominated by small firms. Using nationally representative firm‐level and labor force survey...

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Deindustrialization? A global perspective

Jesus Felipe, Aashish Mehta

Economics Letters > 2016 > 149 > C > 148-151

Recent studies show that, within countries, manufacturing labor productivity growth has outstripped aggregate labor productivity growth, putting significant downwards pressure on national manufacturing employment shares. We compile the first (nearly) global database of national manufacturing employment and output levels over time, and use it to document two facts seemingly at odds with these results:...

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Research diversification and impact: the case of national nanoscience development

Patrick Herron, Aashish Mehta, Cong Cao, Timothy Lenoir

Scientometrics > 2016 > 109 > 2 > 629-659

Newcomer nations, promoted by developmental states, have poured resources into nanotechnology development, and have dramatically increased their nanoscience research influence, as measured by research citation. Some achieved these gains by producing significantly higher impact papers rather than by simply producing more papers. Those nations gaining the most in relative strength did not build specializations...

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Pilferage from opaque food subsidy programs: Theory and evidence

Aashish Mehta, Shikha Jha

Food Policy > 2014 > 45 > Complete > 69-79

Theft rates from subsidized food programs vary greatly and strongly influence program efficiency. Unfortunately, the determinants of these variations remain understudied because the agencies that run these programs seldom publicize the allocations of subsidized food to local markets. We develop a theoretical model of pilferage which predicts that: (i) pilferage from opaque programs is likely to rise...

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Does Industry Affiliation Influence Wages? Evidence from Indonesia and the Asian Financial Crisis

Aashish Mehta, Wei Sun

World Development > 2013 > 51 > Complete > 47-61

We exploit panel data and large, abrupt, and unusual dislocations of Indonesian workers in the wake of the Asian Financial Crisis to investigate the robustness and persistence of inter-industry wage differentials (IWDs). Unobserved worker characteristics explain 36% of IWDs. IWDs persist through the post-crisis decade, although, consistent with a rent-sharing explanation, they shift alongside sectors’...

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Self-targeted food subsidies and voice: Evidence from the Philippines

Aashish Mehta, Shikha Jha, Pilipinas Quising

Food Policy > 2013 > 41 > Complete > 204-217

This paper studies the targeting outcomes of a self-targeted rice subsidy program in the Philippines. We find modest within-community targeting outcomes, but weak between-community targeting. This appears to be because, controlling for the direct influence of household characteristics, participation was lower in poorer communities. These inter-community differentials are strongly correlated with several...

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Where have All the Educated Workers Gone? Services and Wage Inequality in Three Asian Economies

Aashish Mehta, Jesus Felipe, Pilipinas Quising, Shiela Camingue

Metroeconomica > 64 > 3 > 466 - 497

The wage returns to college have risen relative to those to secondary education in many developing economies. In India, the Philippines and Thailand, this is related to the expansion of services employment. We show this using decompositions connecting shifts in the returns to education to changing job opportunities. High‐skill services employment grew slowly while relative demand in the sector shifted...

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Corruption, food subsidies, and opacity: Evidence from the Philippines

Aashish Mehta, Shikha Jha

Economics Letters > 2012 > 117 > 3 > 708-711

We argue that subsidized food distribution systems that fail to publicize how much food has been allocated to each local market will experience high rates of theft on the margin as they are expanded. We provide the first comparable cross-section of estimates of subsidized food theft. As predicted, in regions of the Philippines that were allocated more subsidized rice to distribute, a larger percentage...

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Economic Liberalization and Rising College Premiums in Mexico: A Reinterpretation

Aashish Mehta, Belinda Acuña Mohr

World Development > 2012 > 40 > 9 > 1908-1920

Mexico’s college premium rose in the 1990s. Studies employing structural decomposition analyses treat the college premium as the relative price of “skilled” to “unskilled” workers. They find that reallocations of labor across industries and occupations cannot account for rising college premiums, and often attribute them to widely observed trade-induced increases in skills demand within the manufacturing...

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The effects of trade and services liberalization on wage inequality in India

Aashish Mehta, Rana Hasan

International Review of Economics and Finance > 2012 > 23 > Complete > 75-90

We examine the effects of trade and services liberalization on wage inequality in India. We find that labor reallocations and wage shifts attributable to liberalization account for at most 29% of the increase in inequality between 1993 and 2004, and that the effects of services reforms are many times larger than those of trade liberalization. In contrast, 30–66% of the increase in wage inequality...

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Globalization and de-globalization in nanotechnology research: the role of China

Aashish Mehta, Patrick Herron, Yasuyuki Motoyama, Richard Appelbaum, more

Scientometrics > 2012 > 93 > 2 > 439-458

The share of nanotechnology publications involving authors from more than one country more than doubled in the 1990s, but then fell again until 2004, before recovering somewhat during the latter years of the decade. Meanwhile, the share of nanotechnology papers involving at least one Chinese author increased substantially over the last two decades. Papers involving Chinese authors are far less likely...

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Overeducation in developing economies: How can we test for it, and what does it mean?

Aashish Mehta, Jesus Felipe, Pilipinas Quising, Sheila Camingue

Economics of Education Review > 2011 > 30 > 6 > 1334-1347

A worker is said to be overeducated if he/she has acquired more education than is required to perform his/her job. In the absence of data measuring the number of years of schooling required to perform particular jobs, we propose a new approach to testing for overeducation. Overeducation is confirmed if we observe that education levels rose in jobs that offer very low returns to education and that...

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Incomplete property rights, exposure to markets and the provision of environmental services in China

Michael T. Bennett, Aashish Mehta, Jintao Xu

China Economic Review > 2011 > 22 > 4 > 485-498

This paper uses data from a 2003 rural survey to examine the determinants of household provision of environmental services under China's Sloping Land Conversion Program (SLCP), the largest payments for environmental services program in the developing world. The paper examines the determinants of plot-level survival rates of program-planted trees and grasses. It finds that household rights over retired...

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Responding to the coffee crisis: What can we learn from price dynamics?

Aashish Mehta, Jean-Paul Chavas

Journal of Development Economics > 2008 > 85 > 1-2 > 282-311

An econometric model of coffee price dynamics is specified and estimated to capture the evolution of coffee prices at the farm, wholesale and retail levels. It investigates the historical influence of the International Coffee Agreement (ICA) through its effects on yield and planting decisions. In the short run, the ICA caused Brazilian farm prices to become disconnected from international prices....

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Power sector reform in Central Asia: observations on the diverse experiences of some formerly Soviet Republics and Mongolia

Aashish Mehta, H. Satish Rao, Anil Terway

Journal of Cleaner Production > 2007 > 15 > 2 > 218-234

We examine the paths to structural reform of the electricity sectors in six former communist Central Asian countries, present data on progress towards solving identified problems, and develop economic hypotheses linking the structural changes with progress identified. This analysis is used to derive suggestions for the further structural reforms of the sectors. The experiences documented make a strong...

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