“bibek debroy and labor market reform”

In 1991, the Egyptian government initiated a major Economic Reform and Structural Adjustment Program (ERSAP). This included a stabilization component to eliminate fiscal and external imbalances, a reform agenda for the trade and financial sectors and the exchange rate regime, and an ambitious privat... More

Prompted by the growing internationalization of the U.S. labor market since the 1970s, contributors of this book provide an innovative and comprehensive analysis of the labor market impact of the international movements of people, goods, and capital.Are immigrants squeezing Americans out of the work... More

"Labor Market Evolution" examines the operation and development of labor markets in Western Europe and North America since 1500 and addresses the key questions in this complicated process using new quantitative evidence. First, how closely connected were geographically distant labor markets? Second,... More

Since the late 1980s, policy makers and regulators in a number of countries have liberalized, restructured or "deregulated" their electric power sector, typically by introducing competition at the generation and retail level. These experiments have resulted in vastly different outcomes - some highly... More

During the last two decades deregulation and restructuring were widely expected to transform the nations energy industries, bringing more competitive pricing and abundant, reliable energy to the public. Instead, consumers and investors in the post-Enron era have suffered losses measured in the billi... More

The most recognized dog in Indian myth is the dog in the Mahabharata that accompanied the Pandavas—not actually a dog but Dharma in disguise. There are, however, several more references to dogs in the classical texts. Mentioned for the first time in the Rg Veda, the eponymous Sarama is the dog of ... More