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    • Offshoring and occupational wages: some empirical evidence 

      Bigsten, Arne; Munshi, Farzana; Durevall, Dick
      Offshoring has changed the pattern of international competition; labor in specific occupations rather than whole firms and sectors are now facing competition. Accordingly, wages in offshorable occupations are affected in ...
    • Transitions between informal and formal employment: results from a worker survey in Bangladesh 

      Gutierrez, Italo A.; Kumar, Krishna B.; Mahmud, Minhaj; Munshi, Farzana; Nataraj, Shanthi (© 2019 Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2019-02-13)
      We study transitions between different types of formal and informal employment using retrospective job histories from a new survey in Bangladesh. Workers transitioning between jobs are most likely to remain in the same ...
    • Transitions between informal and formal employment: results from a worker survey in Bangladesh 

      Gutierrez, Italo A.; Kumar, Krishna B.; Mahmud, Minhaj; Munshi, Farzana; Nataraj, Shanthi (© 2017 RAND Corporation, 2017-07)
      We document transitions between different types of formal and informal employment using retrospective job histories from a new survey of 2,000 workers in two metropolitan areas of Bangladesh. We find that workers transitioning ...