We employ a Gender-Based Plus (GBA+) and intersectionality lens to examine the triple whammy of the differential effect of Covid on the trifecta of being female, lower-skilled and facing a motherhood penalty from school-age children. We use a difference-in-difference framework with Canadian...

There is considerable debate on the level and effects of minimum wages for many decades. However, most of the studies are conducted in developed countries. This chapter first reviews the theoretical frameworks of anticipated effects of a minimum wage increase on wages and employment in...

This paper considers the debate regarding ownership, competition and alternative approaches to SOE reforms. While the conventional approach has been, supported by empirical work, that privatization is only the most extreme of series proposals for the reforms, empirical evidence in Vietnam is an...

The main purpose of this paper is to examine determinants of the quot;levelquot; and the quot;ratequot; of technical efficiency by firstly exploring a firm-level data set of 4600 enterprises in the industrial sector of Vietnam during transition from 2001-2005. The empirical results reveal a...

The purpose of this paper is to explain the role of institutions in different corporate governance arrangements. It applies the logic of trade-off amongst the marginal costs of participants in business organizations as a framework for analyzing corporate governance arrangements in different...