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The Effects of Fair Trade Certification : Evidence from Coffee Producers in Costa Rica

Dragusanu, Raluca - 2018

We examine the effects of Fair Trade (FT) certification of coffee on producers and households in Costa Rica. Examining … the production dynamics of the universe of Costa Rican coffee mills from 1999-2014, we find that FT certification is … associated with a higher sales price, greater sales, and more revenues. As expected, these effects are greater when global coffee …

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Fighting Communism Supporting Collusion

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Economía cafetera : crisis y perspectivas ; foro realiz. entre el 3 y 4 de marzo de 1993

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The Impact of Globalization on Pre-Industrial, Technologically Quiescent Economies

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 1999

This paper uses a new pre-1940 Third World data base documenting real wages and relative factor prices to explore their determinants. There are three possibilities: external price shocks, factor endowment changes, and technological change. As the paper's title suggests, technological change is...

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Mismatch and Assimilation

Wang, Ping - 2018

Income disparity across countries has been large and widening over time. We develop a tractable model where factor requirements in production technology do not necessarily match a country's factor input profile. Appropriate assimilation of frontier technologies balances such multi-dimensional...

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The Impact of Globalization on Pre-Industrial, Technologically Quiescent Economies

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 1999

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Importing Skill-Biased Technology

Burstein, Ariel - 2011

Capital equipment - such as computers and industrial machinery - embodies skill-biased technology, in the sense that it is complementary to skilled labor. Most countries import a large share of their capital equipment, and by doing so import skill-biased technology. In this paper we develop a...

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Joblessness and Perceptions about the Effectiveness of Democracy

Altindag, Duha Tore - 2010

Using micro data on more than 130,000 individuals from 69 countries, we analyze the extent to which joblessness of the individuals and the prevailing unemployment rate in the country impact perceptions of the effectiveness of democracy. We find that personal joblessness experience translates...

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